Map of the Ephrata plantation

Titel Leupe: Kaart van de Plantagie Ephrata en een daaraan gelegen stuk land.

This map shows the Ephrata plantation (indicated with the letters A-F) belonging to the widow of Jacob Lemmers and located north of of the River Cottica. Several buildings are depicted along the riverbank. The extent of the land measures 770 Surinamese acrer (331,1 hectares).

The surveyor signed the map on 20 November 1708 and it was ratified on 11 August 1732 in Paramaribo.

Scale of 100 chains of 5 1/2 Rhineland rods = 118 ‘strepen’.

Taken from: [OBP Suriname] 1732 [fol.] 1077.