Document: Patent of Hendrick Jansen for a lot in New Amsterdam

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0066

Description

Patent. Hendrick Jansen the boor; lot between Samuel Edsal, hatter, and the Old Church, New Amsterdam.

Document Date

1656-09-19

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-09-19

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Hendrick Jansen de Boer a lot lying on the island of Manhattan in the city of Amsterdam in the rear of the lot of Hendrick Jansz Smit; it is in breadth on the north side one rod and 9 feet; on the south side between Samuel Edsal Hoedemaecker and the old church one rod, 8 feet; in length on the west side 2 rods, 4½ feet; and on the east side 2½ rods, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 19 September 1656.

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_0066.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.