Document: Patent of Claes Jansen Backer for land at Pavonia (New Jersey)

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0026

Description

Patent. Claes Jansen Backer; 40 morgens of land at Pavonia (New Jersey).

Document Date

1654-11-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-11-27

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Claes Jansen Backer a parcel of land lying at Pavonia, in the rear of the land of Claes Pietersen Cos; extending northeast 120 rods in breadth into the woods; northwest in length 200 rods; its breadth in the rear is 120 rods; making together 40 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 27 November 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_0026.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.