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

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0142

Description

Patent. Cornelis van Tienhoven; piece of land at the Great Highway, Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1646-03-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1646-03-27

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Cornelis van Tienhoven a certain piece of land located on the island of Manhattan; extending next to the land of the aforesaid Tienhoven in length 35 rods; beginning at the great highway until the land of Govert Loockmans; from the land of Tienhoven until Loockman's land 27 rods; and then to the great highway 39 rods; in length along the great highway 26 rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 27 March 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_0142.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.