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Map of Mrs. Paneras's land

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Map of Mrs. Paneras's land

Freuytenier, Jan

Title Leupe: Kaart van een stuk land, gelegen in de Cottica, ten behoeve van de Plantagie Culenburg en daarnaast gelegen.

This map demarcates a piece of land of Mrs. Paneras (coloured yellow, indicated with the letters A, B, E and H) on the south bank (above on the map) of the Cottica river.

The survey is made on request of Mrs. Jasina Paneras, widow of Adriaan Cuylenburg, to measure the land she inherited.

The lot turns measures 250 Surinamese acres (108 hectares).

The lot lies west of the land of Ellen Hage, and east of the land of Samuel Serum and the Culenburg plantation.

The map was signed by the surveyor in October 1734 and ratified on 4 August 1736 in Paramaribo.

Another copy of this map exists: VEL1892A.

Scale of 100 Chains of 5 1/2 Rhineland rods = 168 ‘strepen’.

Taken from: [OBP Suriname] 1736, [fols.] 1331-1334.

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