Document: Patent of Isaac Foreest for land on Long Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0048

Description

Patent. Isaac Foreest; 27 morgens of land in Midwout, Long Island (Flatbush).

Document Date

1655-12-01

Document Date (Date Type)

1655-12-01

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Ysack Foreest a parcel of land lying on Long Island in the town of Midwout south of the land of Jan Eversen and north of the land of Cornelis Jansz; along the road its breadth is 27 rods; extending west southwest its length is 600 rods; making together 27 morgens with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 1 December 1655.

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_0048.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.