Plan of the Island of St Vincent laid down by actual survey under the direction of the Honorable the Commissioners for the Sale of Lands in the Ceded Islands by John Byres Chief Surveyor 1776.
Two sheets. Hand col. engr. Medium: Segmented and backed. Scale: 1:33 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Graduated map, meridians of London and Ferro. Scale in British statute miles and chains. Additional Places: Caribbean, Lesser Antilles. Contents Note: The area coloured yellow in the north is 'land granted to the Charibs by the late Treaty in 1773'. This Treaty concluded what is known as the First Carib War, a conflict in which the Indigenous Garifuna population of St Vincent resisted British occupiers. This maps shows the land being parcelled up for sale or lease to sugar planters, who made their profits from the labour of enslaved people. The plantations taken over from the French followed natural boundaries and so differ from the rectangular plots imposed on other ceded islands. The map is dedicated to Sir William Young, late Governor of Dominica.
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