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Floor plans for the new quarter for the captain and major in Nieuw- Amsterdam

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Floor plans for the new quarter for the captain and major in Nieuw- Amsterdam

Hart, Abraham van der

Title Leupe: Plans, platte gronden, opstanden voor gebouwen voor de nieuwe stad, het gouvernement enz.

This drawing is part of the plans designed by Abraham van der Hart for the Society of Berbice in the years 1779-1781. These are three floor plans for the new quarters for the captain and major which on Van der Hart’s general plan for the new governmental complex on map VEL1662.42, is given as building no. 2. Three floors are shown and all rooms are designated.

Due to the British conquest of Berbice in March 1781, this plan could not be sent to the Republic immediately. After Berbice had been returned to the Society in 1784, the first plans for a completely new main town at the confluence of the Berbice and Canje Rivers followed in the very next year and Van der Hart’s 1779-1781 project was abandoned altogether.

Scale-bar: 70 Rhineland feet = 12 'strepen'

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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)

Bosman, Lex, Nieuw Amsterdam in Berbice (Guyana). De planning en bouw van een koloniale stad, 1764-1800 (1994)