Map of the Jagersburgh Plantation at the Para Creek

Title Leupe: Kaart van de Plantagie Jagers Burgh.

This survey of the Jagersburgh Plantation at the Para Creek was conducted on request of its owner, Jan Pieterse Visser. The extent of the land turns out to be 1200 Surinamese acres; that is 516 hectares. Next to the plantation, the terrain contains forests, buildings and a sidecreek. The map was signed on 6 March 1733 and was ratified on 6 April 1736.

North is upper left.

Scale-bar of chains of 5 ½ Rhineland Rods = 155 ‘strepen’.