Document: Patent of Jochem Gerritsen Cock for land on Long Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0053

Description

Patent. Jochem Gerritsen Cock; 1 morgen of land in the village of Breuckelen, Long Island, on the highway, west of the burying ground.

Document Date

1656-05-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-05-27

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Jochem Gerritsen Cock a lot for a house and garden lying on Long Island in the town of Breuckelen; which is in breadth along the public highway 25 rods west of the burying ground and east of the woods; extending in length 24 rods southwest by west; making together one morgen, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 27 May 1656.

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_0053.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.