Document: Patent of Huych Aertz van Rosum for land at Marechkawick (Brooklyn)

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Huych Aertsen van Rossum a piece of land at Marechkawick near the marsh of the Gouwanus creek, maize as well as woodland, bounded S. E. by the land of Jan Eversz, along the marsh E. 68 rods, S. E. 30 rods; further over the maizeland to the woods N. E. by E. 85 rods N. E. by N. 60 rods, with a width in the woods to the land of said Jan Eversz N. E. 87 rods; again to the maizeland along said Jan Eversz' S. W. and S. W. by W. 55 rods; through the maizeland to the place of beginning S. W. a little S. 137 rods; containing 19 morgens 105 rods, with the express conditions etc... Another parcel of land has been granted to him, so that his property contains, according to the surveyor's measurement with the above parcel of 19 morgens, about 29 morgens.

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 22 February 1646.