Document: Patent of Adriaen Jansen for a lot in Beverwyck (Albany)

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0042

Description

Patent. Adriaen Jansen from Leyden; lot in Beverwyck, north of the highway, on condition that the house to be erected thereon be not an ordinary tippling house, but an inn for travelers (Albany).

Document Date

1654-12-16

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-12-16

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Adriaen Jansz van Leyden a lot for a house and garden lying in Beverwyck, which is bounded on the south by the common highway which comes to the palisades of Thomas Jansz; being of equal breadth in front and rear, to wit 5 rods, 8 feet; its length is 14 rods bounded westerly in the rear by thickets and northerly by a vacant lot; provided that the aforementioned lot shall be occupied and used by the said Adriaen Jansz or his assigns who may receive his documents according to the true intent and meaning of the request; not to be employed or used as a tavern or tipling house, but as a house of entertainment for travelers, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 16 December 1654.

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/A1880/NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0042.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.