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Map of the Vreede and Clifton Plantation at the Para Creek

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Map of the Vreede and Clifton Plantation at the Para Creek

Lavaux, Alexander de

Title Leupe: Kaart van een stuk land, gelegen in boven Para Creeq, links in het opvaren, behorende tot de Plantagien de Vreede en Clifton. Tweede gedeelte.

This is a survey of one part of the Vreede and Clifton Plantation at the Para Creek. The extent of the parcel turns out to be 500 Surinamese acres; that is 215 hectares. The map was signed on 10 January 1735 and was ratified on 20 July 1736.

North is upper left.

Part of a series of measurements of the various plots of this plantation: VEL1739 through VEL1743.

Scale-bar of chains of 66 Rhineland feet = 132 ‘strepen’.

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