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Map of the Gloria Plantation at the Corpine Creek
Lavaux, Alexander de
Title Leupe: Kaart van de Plantagie Gloria en eenige andere, gelegen tusschen de Corpine en Tawaricoeroe creeken.
This survey of the Gloria Plantation was requested by Sir Frederik Conraad Bosse. The extent of the lot is indicated by the letters A-D, is 500 Surinamese acres (215 hectares). The annotation at the bottom of the map describes. The map was signed on 8 January 1735 and ratified on 25 January 1736.
North is lower right.
Scale-bar of 100 chains of 66 Rhineland feet = 96 ‘strepen’.
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