viii, 75 pp. Black-and-white frontispiece portrait of DeWitt from a painting by Ezra Ames. A brief biography of the founder of Ithaca, New York, who also established its rectilinear street grid. As the long-serving Surveyor General of New York (1784 - 1834), DeWitt was instrumental in shaping the geography of the state, including the development of the Central New York Military Tract.
