Document: Certificate of director and council that they had granted a plantation on the South river to Jan Schagen

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(link is external)New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0526
Description

Certificate. Director and council that they had granted a plantation, on the South river, to Jan Schagen.

Document Date
1657-04-21
Document Date (Date Type)
1657-04-21
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Document Type Unlinked
Certificate
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Translation
Translation

After reading the foregoing petition, the following declaration was sent to the petitioner for his use: This is to certify and to declare that we, the undersigned, being on the South River of New Netherland in the month of September 1655, have, out of consideration for the services and assistance given by him in the execution of the plans then designed, allotted, granted and given to Jan Sgaggen, at his request, the plantation, upon which he, at that time, lived, worked and planted with the promise to issue to him a proper title and letters patent in due form at the proper time.

Done Fort Amsterdam 21st of April 1657.

P. Stuyvesant Nicasius de Sille

Rights: This translation is provided for education and research purposes, courtesy of the  (link is external)New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections, Mutual Cultural Heritage Project. Rights may be reserved. Responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish, reproduce or other use rest with the user. For additional information see our (link is external)Copyright and Use Statement Source: New York State Archives. New Netherland. Council. Dutch colonial council minutes, 1638-1665. Series A1809. Volume 8.

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. (link is external)  https://www.archives.nysed.gov/  

Translation link see: (link is external)http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0526.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the (link is external)Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the
(link is external)New Netherland Institute website.

Location
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South River
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Jan Schagen
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A1809 Additional Party
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