Document: Patent to Jacques Corteljou

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0089

Description

Patent to Jacques Corteljou

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 Jacques Corteljou on behalf of the new village of Werckhooven a parcel of marshland located on Long Island at the easterly point 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.

The above patent has been canceled and a document issued as appears on the next page.

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_0089.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.