Document: Patent of Hendrick Jansen van Ieveren for land on Long Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0060

Description

Patent. Hendrick Jansen van Ieveren; 25 morgens of land on Long Island, beyond Hellgate, originally laid out for Juriaen Fradell, and by him sold to the present patentee (Newtown).

Document Date

1656-08-25

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-08-25

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Hendrick Jansen van Jeveren a piece of land located beyond Hellgate on Long Island bounded on the west side by Lieven Jansz and on the east side by Adrian Dirckz; its breadth along the creek or the marsh extending west northwest and east southeast is 50 rods; running into the woods west southwest to the great thicket its length on both sides is 300 rods; running along the said swamp its breadth is 50 rods; making together 25 morgens. (Note the above describing parcel of land was surveyed and laid out for Jeurriaen Fradel, but as he has sold his right thereto to the above mentioned Hendrick Jansz, this patent is, at the request of the parties, made out in his name.) With the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 25 August 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_0060.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.