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Map of the Sorgvliet Plantation at the Para Creek
Lavaux, Alexander de
Title Leupe: Kaart van een stuk land, gelegen tusschen de Plantagien Osembo en Overtoom.
This is a survey of Sorgvliet Plantation at the Para Creek was requested by Friederik Conrad Bosse. The extent of the plot turns out to be 597 Surinamese acres, which is 256,71 hectares. To its northwest is the Osembo Plantation and the Overtoom plantation is to the southeast. The map was signed on 8 January 1735 and was ratified on 25 January 1736.
North is upper left.
Scale-bar of 100 chains of 66 Rhineland feet = 112 ‘strepen’.
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