Document: Deed of Peter Wolphertsen van Couwenhoven to Peter Hartges for a lot on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1882-78_VHHpt1_0007

Description

Deed. Peter Wolphertsen (van Couwenhoven) to Peter Hartges; lot on the island of Manhattan.

Document Date

1652-11-12

Document Date (Date Type)

1652-11-12

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Translation

Appeared...before us, ... Pieter Wolphertsen, citizen and inhabitant of this city of New Amsterdam, and declared to have conveyed to Pieter Hartges a house and lot located on the island of Manhattan between the lots of Ooloff Stevense and him, Pieter Wolphertsen; in breadth along the street 4 rods; in length along the lot of Ooloff Stevensen 10 rods, one and one-third feet; in breadth in the rear 4 rods; in length along Pieter's lot 10 rods; making in all 41½ rods; and that by virtue of the patent granted to him by the director-general and council of New Netherland, dated 17 March 1646 etc.

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 12 November 1652. Pieter Wolversen, 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_0007.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.