Map of lots on the Cottica River
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Title Leupe: Kaart van de Plantagien, gelegen tusschen Bockestyn en Marseille, aan beide oevers van de Cottica.
This map shows the Bockestijn plantation (coloured red) on the south bank (above on the map) of the Cottica river.
The survey was done a year after Governor-General Johan Raye van Breukelerwaard (1735-1737) granted the piece of land to Sir Willem Sautyn, member of Maritime affairs and the Council of the city of Amsterdam, and Pierre Balguerie, agent of the King, on 27 January 1736.
The Wobma, Jacoby, Libanon, Perou, Le Paix and Marseille are located nearby and all depicted.
To the north (top on the map) lays the Jirgo plantation (coloured yellow).
The map was signed by the surveyor on 8 January 1737 and ratified on 12 January 1737.
Taken from: [OBP Suriname] 1737 [fols.] 41-42.
Scale of 140 Chains of 66 Rhineland feet = 84 ‘strepen’.
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