Document: Patent of the inhabitants of New Utrecht for 130 morgens of land on Long Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0090

Description

Patent. Inhabitants of New Utrecht; 130 morgens of valley, situate on Long Island, at the East hook of the bay of the North river, opposite Coney Island, bounding with the west end on the land of Anthony Jansen from Salee northeast on the kil where the Gravesend mill stands, east, southeast and south abutting on said kil, southwest on the bay of the North river.

Document Date

1657-08-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-08-27

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to the newly begun village of Utrecht and its inhabitants already there and yet to come a parcel of marshland located on Long Island at the easterly point of land of the bay of the North River opposite Conynen Island; containing, with all the streams, creeks, ponds, reeds, watery and sandy lands, 130 morgens; bounded on the west and northwest sides by the land of Anthony Jansen van Salee; northeast by the creek on which the Gravesend mill stands; east southeast and south by the same creek; southwest by the bay of the North River, with the express conditions , etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 27 August 1657.

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_0090.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.