Document: Patent of Cornelis van Tienhoven for land on Long Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0188

Description

Patent. Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary; tract of land in the allotment of Breuckelen, formerly called Marechkawick, on Long Island; this land had been already patented to Jan Aertsen from Utrecht, who failed to improve, and thus forfeited it.

Document Date

1647-03-15

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-03-15

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary here, a piece of land located in the allotment of Breukelen, formerly called Marechkawick, on Long Island, of the same extent as it was surveyed by the surveyor Andries Hudden for Jan Aertsz van Utrecht according to his book; which Jan Aertsz having failed to improve his land pursuant to the laws, we have given his lot to the said Tienhoven, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam, 15 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_0188.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.