Document: Patent of Nicolas William Stuyvesant for a lot in New Amsterdam

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0224

Description

Patent. Nicolas William Stuyvesant; lot west of the Great Highway, New Amsterdam.

Document Date

1649-07-20

Document Date (Date Type)

1649-07-20

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_A16

Translation

We, the Director-General and Council, etc... have given and granted to Nicolaes Willem Stuyvesandt a certain lot for a house and garden located in the city of New Amsterdam west of the great highway; bounded on the south by Hendrick van Dyck and on the north by Baltas-Lasar Stuyvesandt; extending along the aforesaid public road in breadth 7½ Rhenish rods; its length on both sides is 20 rods; in the rear on the west side along the North River its breadth is 7½ Rhenish rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 20 July 1649.

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_VGG_0224.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.