Document: Patent of Jan Jacobsen Carpenel for land on Long Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0012

Description

Patent. Jan Jacobsen Carpenel; 25 morgens of land near Hellgate, Long Island (Newtown).

Document Date

1654-06-22

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-06-22

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Jan Jacobsen Carpenel a piece of land lying on Long Island beyond Hellgate, extending on the west side to the land of Adriaen Dircksz Coen, and on the east side to the Company's land; it is in breadth along the creek or marsh, running west northwest and east southeast 50 rods; running into the woods west southwest to the Great Thicket in length on both side 300 rods; in breadth in the rear along the said thicket 50 rods; making together 25 morgens, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 22 June 1654.

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_0012.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.