Document: Order granting Michiel Jansen's petition

The foregoing petition, having been read at the session, was acted upon, after due deliberation, as follows:

The petitioner is granted and allowed a small lot within this city next to Abraham Martensen Clock, measuring 26 to 27 feet wide, front and rear, and as long as the lot of the aforesaid Abraham Clock; provided that the petitioner shall shore up the aforesaid lot on the strand side, just as the shoring has been started at the city’s gate.[1]

Done at the session at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, ady ut supra, 2 February 1656. De Sille, Stuyvesant, La Montagne.

(Below was written:) For certain reasons the foregoing was annulled and he was granted another lot.