Document: Patent of Egbert van Borsum for a lot on Long Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0019

Description

Patent. Egbert van Borsum; lot on Long Island, at the Ferry (Brooklyn).

Document Date

1654-08-28

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-08-28

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Egbert van Borsum a lot lying on Long Island at the ferry beginning at an oak tree near the division line of Cornelis Potter; the distance from there to the shore being in breadth 40 feet Rhenish measure; and further to the oak tree 40 feet in breadth also Rhenish measure, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 28 August 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_0019.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.