Document: Patent of Harmen Smeman for a lot on Manhattan Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0207

Description

Patent. Harmen Smeman, husband of Barent Dircksen's widow; 23 morgens, 486 rods of land on the East river, north of the company's Great Bouwery, Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1647-04-02

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-04-02

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Harmen Smeman, who has married the widow of Barent Dircksz, a certain piece of land located on the East River on the island of Manhattan; bounded on the north by the Company's large farm; extending from the house along a certain marsh and along the beach of the aforesaid river south east 80 rods; around the point further west north west a little north 80 rods; along a certain marsh to a thicket north by west to a certain thicket 27 rods; further into the woods westward 63 rods; through the woods 75 rods; north by west 75 rods; then north east 60 to a thicket; along the thicket in various courses to the place of beginning; amounting in all to 23 morgens, 486 rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 2 April 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_0207.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.