Early maps

For maps/lists of plantation owners in Demerara see:

1. River Demerara, 1759

   [University of Amsterdam Library] – 122 plantations

    

2. Demerara 1785

   [Netherlands National Archives]

    

3. Demerara, 1786

   [University of Amsterdam Library] – 187 plantations

    

4. Demerara & Essequibo, 1798

   map[University of Amsterdam Library]

    

5. Demerara & Essequibo, 1798 plantation owners sheet 1 & sheet 2

   [University of Amsterdam Library]

    

6. Demerara, 1823 [John Carter Brown Library – requires download of Luna Insight browser] together with text of Joshua Bryant,

   Account of an insurrection of the negro slaves in the colony of Demerara [1824], p114.

    

For early maps/lists of plantation owners in Berbice see:

1. Berbice, 1740 [University of Amsterdam Library]

2. Berbice 1763: Berbice door een Liefhebber opgemaakt 1763 [John Carter Brown Library – requires download of Luna Insight browse]

Other sources

Chart of Berbice, 1799 [National Archives, Kew: Catalogue Reference MPG/1/968] with list of plantation owners

Henry Bolinbroke, A Voyage to the Demerary [London, 1807] was written after he had spent seven years from 1799 as a clerk in Demerara. The map from this book is in the gallery on this page.