Map of a lot from the Bruynsburg plantation

Title Leupe: Kaart van het eerste gedeelte van de Plantagie Bruynsburg.

This map shows the survey of one lot of the Bruynsburg plantation.

The owner, Sir Pimper, appears to have requested the survey himself.

The extent of the lot turns out to be 300 Surinamese acres (129 hectares) and it is located southeast (top of the map) of the Commewijne river.

The borders of the lot are indicated with the letters A-E.

Adjacent plantations: Acaribo and Klein Bruijnsburg.

De Lavaux signed the map on 29 May 1732 and it is ratified on 3 June 1732.

Scale of 100 Chains of 66 Rhineland Feet= 123 ‘strepen’.

Taken from; [OBP Suriname] 1732 [fols.] 1080-1081.