Document: Patent of Jan Pietersen Slot for land on Manhattan Island

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NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0130

Description

Patent. Jan Pietersen Slot; 8 morgens of land at Van Cuelen's Hook, and a point in the Great Valley, situate opposite No. 5, with house and garden lot, at Haerlem, island of Manhattan.

Document Date

1664-01-04

Document Date (Date Type)

1664-01-04

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Jan Pietersen Slot a parcel of land located on the island of Manhattan above Ceulen's Point, to the east of Pieter Jansz, to the west of Nicolaes Meyer; in breadth 32 rods, with a boundary line from the road to the stream southerly; containing 8 morgens; a point of land in the great marsh located opposite No. 5, contiguous with Philip Cagie; containing [ blank ]; together with a lot for a house and garden at New Haerlem located north of the road, west of Symon Dreun[ en ], east of Syperious; it is in breadth 5 rods; in length 20 rods; also another lot south of Michiel Muyen; it is in breadth 5 rods, 6 feet; in length 15 rods, with the express conditions , etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 4 January 1664.

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_0130.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.