Document: Patent of Michiel Jansen for 261 morgens of land at Pavonia (New Jersey)

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0025

Description

Patent. Michiel Jansen; 261 morgens of land at Pavonia (New Jersey).

Document Date

1654-11-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-11-27

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Michiel Jansen a parcel of land lying at Pavonia, in the rear of his own land; its breadth is 80 rods; extending northeast and into the woods northwest 200 rods along the land of Claes Jansen Backer; in the rear extending 80 rods in breadth; amounting to 26 1/3 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 27 November 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_0025.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.