Document: Patent of Claes van Elslant for land on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0183

Description

Patent. Claes van Elstant; lot on Manhattan Island, containing 82 rods, 9 feet.

Document Date

1647-03-13

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-03-13

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_R2

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Claes van Elslant a certain lot for a house and garden located on the island of Manhattan at the rear of the lot of Roelof Jansz; its breadth on the west side is 8 rods, 4 feet, 5 inches; on the north side its length is 12 rods, 5 feet, 6 inches; on the east side its breadth is 5 rods, 5 feet; further, its breadth (for the length of 5 rods, 7 feet) is 5 rods, 9 feet, 3 inches; further, (for the length of one rod, 6 feet) its breadth is 7 rods; further, the length along the south side until the lot of the aforesaid Roeloff Jansz is 5 rods, 2 feet, 4 inches; amounting altogether to 82 rods, 9 feet, with the express conditions etc..

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 13 March 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_0183.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.