Document: Deed of Cornelis Diercksen Hooglant to Cornelis de Potter for land and buildings

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Document ID

NYSA_A1882-78_VHHpt1_0008

Description

Deed. Cornelis Diercksen Hooglant, ferrymaster, Brooklyn, to Cornelis de Potter; 2 morgens, 67 1/2 rods of land, with some buildings.

Document Date

1652-12-03

Document Date (Date Type)

1652-12-03

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Translation

Appeared...before us, ... Cornelys Dirrixen Hooghlant, inhabitant of this province at the ferry on Long Island, and declared to have conveyed to Cornelys de Potter some buildings and a piece of land containing 2 morgens and 67½ rods; extending along the wagon road, whereof the perpendicular is 65 rods and the base is 39 rods; and that by virtue of a patent granted to him by the director-general and council of New Netherland, dated 28 April 1643 etc.

Done in council, 3 December 1652. Coernelis Diercksz Hoochlandt, La Montagne, Brian Newton.

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/A1882/NYSA_A1882-78_VHHpt1_0008.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Gehring, C. trans./ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vols. GG, HH & II, Land Papers, 1630-1664 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1980).

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.