Document: Patent of Jan Swaen for land on Long Island

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NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0040
Description

Patent. Jan Swaen; 25 morgens of land at Mespat, Long Island.

Document Date
1654-12-15
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1654-12-15
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Translation
Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Jan Swaen a piece of land lying on Long Island in Mespat, running southwest and northeast between Claes van Elslant's land and Ensign Dirck Smit's land along the marsh or path which is 25 rods in breadth; running into the woods southeast and northwest it is in length 600 rods; making together 25 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 15 December 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_0040.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.

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