Design for a beam construction

Title Leupe: Plans, platte gronden, opstanden voor gebouwen voor de nieuwe stad, het gouvernement enz.

The military engineer Jan Carel Willem Herlin, who arrived in Berbice early in 1780 and was d’Arnaud’s successor, drew a design in that same year for the new main guard in Fort Nassau (in fact still the provisional fortifications of 1764). However, it only reached the Republic in 1785. This unsigned draft is most likely part of Herlin's package to the Republic, since it bears his handwriting and colouring. It remains unclear for which building this beam contruction was designed, but it was most likely the main guard itself. In response to his proposals, the directors informed him that this and subsequent plans for Nieuw-Amsterdam would not be required because they had meanwhile asked Abraham van der Hart to produce a whole new range of plans for the town.

See: Report of Herlin to the Director on 15 September 1785.