Document: Patent of Jan Martensen for land on Long Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0114

Description

Patent. Jan Martensen; 22 morgens, 182 rods of land by the village of Amesfoort, on Long Island (Flatlands).

Document Date

1660-08-20

Document Date (Date Type)

1660-08-20

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Jan Martensen a parcel of land located in the village of Amesfoort on the northwest side of Pieter Claesen, on the west side an interior marsh, on the southeast side a creek; containing 12 morgens, 182 rods; also, a parcel of flats bordering on the southeast side of Pieter Wolphersz van Couwenhooven; the northwest side Govert Loocquermans; in breadth it is 38 rods; in length 162 rods; containing 10 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 20 August 1660.

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_0114.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.