Document: Patent of John West for land on Long Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0128

Description

Patent. John West; 21 morgens, 200 rods upland, and about 5 morgens of valley at Mespath, W. N. W., of Robert Jackson, a wagon road being between them, E. S. E. of Samuel Too (L. I.).

Document Date

1661-06-17

Document Date (Date Type)

1661-06-17

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Jan West a parcel of land located at Mespath on Long Island on the west northwest side of Robbert Jackson, being a wagon path between them; on east southeast side of Samuel Too; on the south southwest side of the Company's woods, being the boundary line between both Samuel Too and Robbert Jackson north east and north by east; in length 160 rods; in breadth 80 rods; containing 21 morgens, 200 rods; also, a small piece of marshland adjoining the arable land, containing one morgen, 300 rods; and also, another piece of marshland on the south side of Long Island on the east northeast side of Robbert Jackson, on the west southwest side of Tomas Riet, with the boundary line on both sides southeast by east; in breadth 20 rods; containing 3 morgens, 500 rods, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 17 June 1661.

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_0128.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.