Document: Patent of Gerrit Snediger for land on Long Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0134

Description

Patent. Gerrit Snediger; 27 morgens 240 rods of land, on the west side of the road north of the church land, and about 7 1/2 morgens of valley, in Midwout, Long Island (Flatbush).

Document Date

1664-01-24

Document Date (Date Type)

1664-01-24

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Gerrit Snediger a parcel of land located on Long Island in the village of Middewout on the west side of the road, to the north of the church's land, south of Cornelis Jansz; in breadth 27 rods and 4 feet; in length 600 rods extending west by south; containing 27 morgens, 240 rods; two pieces of marshland in common with Jan Snedicker: the first. No. 4, in breadth 7 rods, 5 feet; making 2 morgens; the other, No. 8, in breadth 12 rods; containing 3 morgens, extending southerly from the woods to the sea; a piece of flats, No. 29, in breadth 13 [ rods ]; containing 2½ morgens, extending south from the road to the woods, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 24 January 1664.

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_0134.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.