Note 575 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

In 1793, when Stedman used the plate in his American War, he only altered the title, as Frothingham says. In 1797 it was again reëngraved, but also with changes in the title, as A plan of the action at Breed's Hill, etc., and, as then reduced by D. Martin, it constitutes the earliest American engraved plan. It appeared in C. Smith's American War from 1775 to 1783 (New York, 1797), and Hunnewell (p. 18) gives a heliotype of it. Nathaniel Dearborn, in his Boston Notions, engraved it, on a very small scale, in 1848; and the next year (1849) Frothingham reproduced it in its original state in his Siege, and pointed out that the correspondence of Montresor's survey to a recent survey of Felton and Parker inspired one with confidence in its accuracy (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv.). It is the basis of the best plans of the action, and is reproduced also in Irving's Washington, illus. ed., ii. 467.