Document: Patent of Johanna de Laet for 500 morgens of land at the Esopus

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0074

Description

Patent. Johanna de Laet; 500 morgens of land at the Esopus, bounding north on the land of Thomas Chambers and Christoffel Davids, where a great kil forms the division line, and is again divided at the north by a little creek, from the land where Juriaen van Westphalen at present lives.

Document Date

1657-03-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-03-27

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Mrs. Johanne de Laet, widow and administratrix of Johan de Hulter, deceased, a parcel of land lying in Esopus, containing in arable marsh and woodland 500 morgens; bounded north by the land of Thomas Chambers and Christoffel Davits, from which it is divided by a large creek, and is divided further north by a small creek from the land on which Juriaen van Westphalen at present resides, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 27 March 1657.

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_0074.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.