Document: Patent of Andries Herpertsen and Rutger Jacobsen for a small island in the North river

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NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0122

Description

Patent. Andries Herpertsen and Rutger Jacobsen; a small island in the North river, about 2 (Dutch) miles below Fort Orange, nearly opposite Bethlehem, called in the Indian tongue Packonakellick, alias Mahicanders island; on condition that the grantees shall surrender the same, if, on adjustment of the bounds of Renselaerswyck, it should be found within that colonie.

Document Date

1661-03-10

Document Date (Date Type)

1661-03-10

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Andries Herpertsz and Rutger Jacobsen, inhabitants of the village of Beverwyck, an island in the North River about two miles below Fort Orange, obliquely opposite Bethlehem, in the Indian language called Pachonakellick, otherwise Mahicanders Island; containing about [ blank ] morgens, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 10 March 1661.

Note: The above patent has been confirmed and granted with the express condition as appears by the resolution dated 10 March 1661; if the aforesaid island should by determination of the Colony of Rensselaerswyck fall within the limits thereof, then the aforesaid owners shall be obligated to give up the aforesaid island, provided that in such event they shall be entitled to a just and equitable compensation for present and future expenses. Done as above.

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_0122.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.