Document: Patent of Govert Loockermans, Cornelis van Ruyven and Jacobus Backer for a tract of land on Long Island

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0106b

Description

Patent. Govert Loockermans, Cornelis van Ruyven and Jacobus Backer; tract of land at Martin Gerritsen's bay, called in the Indian language, Matinne Coneq, alias Hog's neck or Hog island, being at high water an island, as the same was purchased in the year 1650 by said Loockermans from the natives (Long Island).

Document Date

1659-04-23

Document Date (Date Type)

1659-04-23

Document Type

Patent

Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Govert Loockermans, Cornelis van Ruyven and Jacobus Backer a parcel of land located in Marten Gerrits's Bay, in the Indian language called Matinneconcq, otherwise Hog's Neck or Hog's Island, it being in times of high water a small island; with all the dependencies thereof as was purchased from the natives by the aforesaid Loockermans in 1650, with the express conditions, etc. . .

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 23 April 1659.

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_0106b.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.