Document: Patent of Jan Jansen van Ditmersz for land on Long Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0196

Description

Patent. Jan Jansen van Ditmersz; 29 morgens, 362 rods of land, situate south of Peter (Andriessen), the Schoorstenveger (chimney sweeper) (Newtown, L. I.).

Document Date

1647-03-26

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-03-26

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Jan Jansen van Ditmersz a plantation located south of Pieter de Schoorstenveger; it extends from a certain thicket next to the aforesaid Schoorsteenveger's land east south east and south east by east 135 rods until the marsh; along the aforesaid marsh 117 rods south by east and south south west a little westerly 60 rods, west north west a little northerly 34 rods, north north west 45 rods, north north west a little westerly 57 rods, north by west 46 rods, west south west 85 rods, north east by east 119 rods to the place of beginning, with certain protrusions; amounting in all to 29 morgens, 362 rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 23 March 1647.

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_VGG_0196.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.