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Maps of lots which would later become part of the Bleyenhoop plantation
Meester, Roeland de
Title Leupe: Kaart van eenige stukken land gelegen in Boven Cottica (later Bleyenhoop).
This map shows land belonging to Sir Mollinaij (indicated by the letters A-H) and Sir Alexander Dentier (indicated by the letters I-K) and located north of the Cottica River. These lots would later become part of the Bleyenhoop Plantation. The land of Sir Shroder and the WIC lies to the east (to the right on the map) of the aforementioned plantations.
The extent of the plantations turns out to be 1500 and 500 Surinamese acres (645 and 215 hectares).
The map was signed by the surveyor on 18 March 1719 and ratified in Paramaribo on 25 April 1719.
Scale of 100 chains of 5 ½ Rhineland rods = 90 ‘strepen’,
Taken from: [OBP Suriname] 1720 blz. 133-136.
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