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Map of the Discorde Plantation at the Para Creek

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Map of the Discorde Plantation at the Para Creek

Lavaux, Alexander de

Title Leupe: Kaart van de Plantagie La Discorde.

This survey of Discorde Plantation at the Para Creek was requested by Jean Labbadie. The extent of the lot turns out to be 1150 Surinamese acres; that is 494,5 hectares. To its east is the Boxel Plantation lays and to its north La Bonne Amitié, Leeuwendaal and Althona. The map was signed on 10 January 1735 and was ratified on 10 February 1736.

North is lower right.

Scale-bar of 200 chains of 66 Rhineland feet = 118 ‘strepen’.

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