Map of a parcel near Paramaribo

Title Leupe: Kaart van een stuk land, gelegen achter Paramaribo verby het huys van de Ed. Societeyts Plantagie.

This survey of a parcel near Paramaribo was conducted on request of Sir Jacob van der Werf. His parcel is delineated with the colour yellow and the letters A to D. The extent turns out to be 300 Surinamese acres (129 hectares). The lot is located between the land of Picorne and Sapot and the house of Lijfhart on the land of Pieter van de Velde. The map was signed on 31 May 1732 and ratified on 23 September 1732.

North is right.

Scale-bar of 100 chains of 66 Rhineland feet = 160 ‘strepen’.