Document: Patent of George Homs for land on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0143

Description

Patent. George Homs; lot between the company's stone houses and fort Amsterdam, Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1646-04-23

Document Date (Date Type)

1646-04-23

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_E5

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Joris Homs a certain lot for a house and garden located east of the fort between the Company's brick houses and the fort; on the south end of the lot of Jan Haes its breadth in front on the east side is two rods; its length on the north side is 5 rods, 5 feet; its breadth behind on the side of the fort is 2 rods; its length on the south side is 5 rods, 5 feet; amounting in all to 11 rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 23 April 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_0143.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.