Benjamin Lightfoot Survey Notebook

@unpublished{lightfoot1759,
  title = {Benjamin Lightfoot Survey Notebook},
  author = {Lightfoot, Benjamin,},
  year = {1759},
  url = {https://archivesspace.lib.lehigh.edu/repositories/3/resources/137},
  abstract = {This manuscript is a narrative of the locale the line passed through and the detailed surveying coordinates for the alignment of the wagon road. It includes survey data of a road to be built between Pottsville to Shamokin (then an Indian Territory) in 18th century. It also contains detailed information on surveyor's measurements and coordinates; descriptions of the terrain, and insight into frontier Pennsylvania and the interaction between the English settlers, militias and the native people on the Schuylkill and Susquehanna rivers of colonial Pennsylvania. The manuscript is 10.5 cm x 16 cm x .5 cm tan leather cover bound with black tape containing 24 pages. The note book is unpaged with loose, stained pages with faint blue lines. The text is written in black ink. Fifteen pages contain text and nine are blank.},
  note = {CopiBook Cobalt HD; 300; SC MS 0203 Benjamin Lightfoot Survey Notebook},
  language = {English},
}