Document: Patent of Ariaen Pietersen for a tract of land on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0212

Description

Patent. Ariaen Pietersen from Alckmaer; tract of land near Sapokanikan on Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1647-04-13

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-04-13

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Aryaen Pietersz van Alckmaer a certain piece of land located on the island of Manhattan near Sapokanikan, bounded on the south by the plantation of Jan Virginyes and on the north by Jan van Rotterdam; its breadth along the strand is 65 rods; its length into the woods, extending south east by east on each side, is 200 rods long; in the rear in the woods its breadth, extending south south west, is 65 rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 13 April 1647.

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_VGG_0212.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.