Document: Patent of Jan for a land on Manhattan Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0201

Description

Patent. Jan, a negro, who came with the privateer; piece of land on the public wagon road, Manhattan Island, at the end of Mr. Hans (Kierstede's) house and plantation, 200x225 paces.

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 Negro, who came with the Captain, a certain piece of land located on the island of Manhattan; its length along the public wagon road is 200 paces and the breadth is 325 paces; it extends to the end of Dr. Hans's house which stands on his plantation, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 26 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_0201.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.