Thomas Harrison (surveyor)

Thomas Harrison (c. 1823–1894) was the first Government Surveyor of Jamaica. His maps have become an important historical resource for the island.[1]

Plan of Thetford Pen in the Parish of St. Catherine &c. Thomas Harrison, 1889.

He was apprenticed to Edward McGeachy.[2]

References

Higman, B. W. (2001). Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press. pp. 43–48. ISBN 978-976-640-113-9.
"Jamaica Land Surveying Before the Survey Department", B. W. Higman, Jamaica Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May–July 1988), pp. 21-27. Digital Library of the Caribbean.

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[Hig-1] Higman, B. W. (2001). Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press. pp. 43–48. ISBN 978-976-640-113-9.

[hig2-2] "Jamaica Land Surveying Before the Survey Department", B. W. Higman, Jamaica Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May–July 1988), pp. 21-27. Digital Library of the Caribbean.