Dedicatory inscription on map reads as follows: "A MAP or plan of the several public streets in the Town Plan of Newark of the angles and ships on parcels of lands lying at the intersection and above side of the said streets and above the original width t

Dedicatory inscription on map reads as follows: "A MAP or plan of the several public streets in the Town Plan of Newark of the angles and ships on parcels of lands lying at the intersection and above side of the said streets and above the original width through as defined in the origneaul purhcases of wards of the Town made from actual survey by the undersigned and payment to the acting of the Council and General Assembly of the State certified an act to ascertain and define the lanes of the several streets in the Town part of Newark in the County of Essex and for preventing encroachment on the same, passed at Trenton May 21st, 1808 and a supplement law passed at Trenton Nov 27th 1809. For report of book and of road records - page 81. John Outwater, Andrew Wilson, Edward Bondict - Commissioners."