Map of a lot at the Bellevue Plantation
Lavaux, Alexander de
Title Leupe: Kaart van een stuk land, gelegen tusschen de Plantagien Bellevue en Ephrata.
This map shows a lot of the Bellevue plantation (indicated with the letters A-E) belonging to Mrs. Adriana Isabella de la Gaille, situated north of the Cottica River (top side of the map).
The survey was requested by the Governor-General, who granted the land to Mrs. de la Gaille.
The lot turns out to measure 265 Surinamese acres (113,95 hectares).
The Ephrata plantatation is situated to the west, the rest of the Bellevue plantation to the east, and the Hamburgh plantation to the south.
The map was signed by the land surveyor on 4 May 1732 and ratified on 8 May 1732 in Paramaribo.
Scale of 100 Chains of 66 Rhineland feet= 126 ‘strepen’.
Taken from: [OBP Suriname] 1732, [fols.] 1102-1103.
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