Document: Deed from Pieter Cornelissen to Jacob Hendricksen Kip of a lot on Manhattan Island

This day, the 20th of March A° 1651, I, the undersigned, Pieter Cornelisen, shipwright and an inhabitant here, acknowledge and declare that I have sold and conveyed, as I do hereby [ sell and convey ], to Jacob Hendricksen Kip a certain lot situated at the Manhatans, bounded on the north by the lots of Hendric Kip, Antony Jansen and Hendrick Jansen, extending at the west end to the hook where the honorable Company's brewery formerly stood, and further according to the patent thereof, which said lot and appurtenances, except the trees and produce thereon at present, he, Pieter Cornelisen, hereby transfers and conveys to the said Jacob Kip and his successors in true, free, lawful and perpetual ownership, with renunciation of all the right, title and interest which he has had to and in the same; therefore giving the above named Kip and his successors full power to enter upon, build upon and use the aforesaid lot as described in the patent as if it were his own lawfully acquired patrimonial land and property, without any right or claim thereto being retained by me or any one on my part, but everything being ceded as above. I promise therefore to hold this by sale and conveyance firm, binding and inviolable and to observe and perform the same under binding obligation according to law. In testimony whereof I have signed this the 20th of March A° 1651, New Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Pieter Cornelisen