Document: Patent of Gilyam Cornelse for a lot on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0198

Description

Patent. Gilyam Cornelse (or Cornelye); lot on the Heere Graft, Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1647-03-25

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-03-25

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_R4

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Gilliam Cornelse a certain lot located on the island of Manhattan along the public canal; its breadth on the south along the road opposite the lot of Gerrit Douman is 8 rods, 3 feet; on the north 8 rods, 3 feet; on the east opposite the lot of Abraham Rycken 5 rods, 3 feet; on the west along the lot of Evert Snyder 5 rods, 3 feet, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 25 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_0198.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.