A plan of the city of New York from an actual survey / made by Iames Lyne to His Excellency Iohn Montgomerie Esq...

Known in only three surviving copies, A Plan of the City of New York from an Actual Survey depicts lower Manhattan as it appeared in 1731, the same year that Royal Governor John Montgomerie granted the charter establishing New York City as a municipality. The map is notable for its degree of detail, showing topographic and man-made features that have long since changed or vanished. Broadway, running northward from the Battery, terminates in the vicinity of today’s City Hall Park, while Collect Pond, which was drained in the early 1800s, appears on the far-right margin. The city’s history as New Amsterdam is acknowledged by the presence of several Dutch windmills—most conspicuously in the one forming an integral part of the city seal, seen in the upper right corner.