Document: Patent of Elbert Elbertsen for land on Long Island

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NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0127b

Description

Patent. Elbert Elbertsen (Stoothof); 20 morgens, 200 rods of land on Baes Jeuriaens' Hook, Amesfoort, Long Island (Flattlands).

Document Date

1661-06-14

Document Date (Date Type)

1661-06-14

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Elbert Elbertsz a parcel of land located on Long Island below Amesfoort on Baes Jeuriaens's Point, on the southwest side of Roeloff Martensen, on the easterly side of the Company's land, being the boundary marker between Roeloff Martensen and the Company's land; on both sides southeast by south 55 rods in breadth; in length 200 rods; containing 18 morgens, 200 rods; in addition, a protrusion bounded by the marsh containing 2 morgens; altogether 20 morgens and 200 rods.

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 14 June 1661.

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_0127b.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.