Document: Patent of Captain John Underhill for Meutelars Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0146

Description

Patent. Captain John Underhill; Meutelars Island, containing about 50 morgens, and separated by two kills from Long Island, with valley.

Document Date

1646-05-14

Document Date (Date Type)

1646-05-14

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Captain Jan Onderhil a small island, formerly called Meutelaer's Island, separated from Long Island by two streams, containing about 50 morgens besides the marshes, which are granted to said Onderhil with said small island, with the express condition etc. ..

Done at Fort Amsterdam, 14 May 1646.

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_0146.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.