Document: Patent of Cosyn Gerritsz for land on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0186

Description

Patent. Cosyn Gerritsz; lot on the public highway, Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1647-03-13

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-03-13

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_C10

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Cosyn Gerritsz a lot for a house and garden located on the public highway between Rutgert Aertsz and Tonis Nysen; its breadth along the aforesaid road is 4 rods, 2 feet; in the rear or on the east side its breadth is 4 rods; its length on the south side is 18 rods, 2 feet, 5 inches; its length on the north side is 18 rods, 2 feet, 5 inches; amounting in all to 77 rods, 8 feet, 2 inches, 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_0186.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.