Document: Patent of Claes Claesen for land on Long Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0131

Description

Patent. Claes Claesen; 24 morgens of upland, 3 morgens, 160 rods of valley, numbered 11, at New Utrecht, Long Island.

Document Date

1664-01-29

Document Date (Date Type)

1664-01-29

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Claes Claesen a parcel of land located on Long Island in the village of New Utrecht on the northwest side of Jacob Swart, on the southeast side of Albert Albertsz; the boundary line on both sides northeast a little easterly 600 rods in length; in breadth 24 rods; containing 24 morgens; a piece of marshland, marked No. 11, containing 2 morgens, 160 rods; together with a lot for a house and garden on the northwest side of Teunis Idense, on the southeast side of Tomas Jansz; it is in breadth 10 rods; in length 30 rods, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 29 January 1664.

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_0131.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.