The above map was drawn by Claude Joseph Sauthier, a Frenchman in service of the British during the Revolution. Sauthier was ordered to draw this map “immediately after” the attack on Fort Washington on October 28, 1776.4 Perhaps Sauthier should have been given more time to research the area before drawing the map because it is riddled with errors. The Kings Bridge, Tetards Hill, Miles Square, Valentines Hill, and the Heights of Fordham are all labeling the wrong places. Some of the labels are miles away from where they should be. There are multiple misspellings, too. “Nepperhan” is written as “Wepperham.” “Spuyten Duyvil,” which the British were usually spelling as “Spiten Devil” is instead spelled “Spiling Devil.” An analysis of Sauthier’s maps of New York concluded that they “are essentially works of compilation. They were built on the framework of earlier maps, and corrected or supplemented with new materials, including Sauthier’s own surveys and other maps that came to his attention.”5 Sauthier was copying, or miscopying, labels from other maps as were other British mapmakers. The cartographers that came before him did the same thing–copying from older maps to make new ones. One of the British mapmakers from the Revolutionary period must have copied from a map where Tibbetts Brook is correctly labeled “Muskata Creek” (as in the map to the right) but accidentally mistook the ‘k’ in “Muskata” for an ‘h.’ He also mistook the ‘t’ for an ‘l,’ (just as he did in changing “Spiten” to “Spiling”). Like a game of cartographic telephone, the word “Muscota” becomes “Mosholu” and a new local place name is invented during the American Revolution–well after the Munsee had a strong presence in the West Bronx.