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

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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

Document Type

Certificate

Minutes

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Certificate

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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

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Translation link see: 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 Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.