Document: Patent of Ide Cornelissen van Vorst for land in New Amsterdam

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0137

Description

Patent. Ide Cornelissen van Vorst; lot situate on Schreyer's hook (which is a triangle), and adjoining the director-general's garden, New Amsterdam.

Document Date

1664-04-05

Document Date (Date Type)

1664-04-05

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses etc... has given and granted to Ide Cornelisz van Vorst a lot located within this city on Schreyer's Point, being a triangle with the northwest side adjoining the lot of Nicolaes Backer, the easterly side on the General's garden; the southwest side 5 rods, 10 feet; the northeast side 9 rods, 3 feet; the northwest side 5 rods, 7 feet, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 5 April 1664.

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_0137.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.