Plan of the island of Tobago laid down by actual survey under the direction of the honorable the Commissioners for the Sale of Lands in the ceded islands

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Plan of the island of Tobago laid down by actual survey under the direction of the honorable the Commissioners for the Sale of Lands in the ceded islands
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Title:
Plan of the island of Tobago laid down by actual survey under the direction of the honorable the Commissioners for the Sale of Lands in the ceded islands
Creator:
Byres, John
Publisher:
Hooper, S. (Samuel)
Engraver:
Bayly, John Abraham, fl. 1755-1794
Name on Item:
by John Byres, chief surveyor ; I. Bayly sculp.
Date:
1776
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:
Real property--Trinidad and Tobago--Tobago--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Tobago (island)
Extent:
1 map : hand col. ; 58 x 89 cm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Publisher:
London : S. Hooper
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:49,500]
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
MVLA record
Notes:
Relief shown by hachures.
At the end of the Seven Years War in 1763, France ceded the islands of Dominica, St. Vincent, Bequia, Grenada and Tobago to Britain. The Government parcelled up the land for sale or lease to sugar planters.
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Identifier:
06_01_008553