Exploring Pre-Revolutionary New York: the Ratzer Map

Explore BHS’s rare 1770 map of colonial New York with this content-rich curriculum.

This map, The Plan of the City of New York in North America, was made by British military officer Bernard Ratzer in 1766–1767 and printed in 1770. One of only four still in existence, it is one of the finest and most detailed depictions of a commercial New York City in the years before the American Revolution.