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Map of new parcels at Marshall Creek

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Map of new parcels at Marshall Creek

Helleday, Adrianus Hendricus

Title Leupe: Naadere kaart en rapport, specterende de nieuw te begeeven landeryen in de Marchals kreek en of dezelve tot nadeel konde strekken voor de Houtgrond Weltevreden C.A.

This map provides an overview of the plantations and woodlands upstream of the confluence of the Suriname River with the Marechals Creek, close to Weltevreden and Bergendal. It was made by the surveyor Adrianus Hendricus Helledaij (also: Helleday) in connection with the assignment of new woodlands on the creek. Helledaij arrived in Surinam in 1768 and died in Paramaribo in 1787.

North is lower right.

Scale-bar of 410 chains at 66 Rhineland feet = [approximately 1 : 65,000].

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Sources and literature

Heijer, H. den, Grote Atlas van de West-Indische Compagnie = Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch West India Company, II, de nieuwe WIC 1674-1791 = the new WIC 1674-1791 (2012)