Document: Order to Jacques Corteljou to survey the lands of Anthony Jansen van Salee, Robert Pennoyer, and William Bredenbent adjoining Gravesend

[ 23rd of August 1656 at Fort Amsterdam. ] [i]

Present in council: director general Petrus Stuyvesant and the councilors Nicasius de Sille [ and La Montagne ].

Upon the urgent request of the magistrates of Gravesande, assisted by baron Herry Moedy, it was resolved to send the following order to Jacques Corteljou at Najeeck:

Jacques Corteljouw is hereby requested and authorized to survey once again, according to the patents, the land of Anthony Jansz and Robbert Pinoyer as accurately as possible, to the extent of as many morgens as covered by the patents and to place marking stakes at the easements, as well as the hay or meadowland of Bredenbent. After he has done this, he is to draw a line from the mouth of the kil to the easternmost point of Anthony Jansz’s land where it touches the westernmost point of Robbert Pinoyer; this line is, according to the patent, the boundary line of Gravesande; he is to do all to the best of his knowledge without favor, dissimulation or regard of persons, also to gather the hay and leave it in hocks at the place until our arrival there. You will be paid for your work to your satisfaction. Dated as above.