Document: Patent of Olof Stevensz van Cortland for a lot on Manhattan Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0174

Description

Patent. Olof Stevensz (van Cortland); 30 morgens of land at the end of Lesly's plantation and the wagon road of Sapokanikan, Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1647-03-12

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-03-12

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Olof Stevensz a certain piece of land located on the island of Manhattan on the north end of the plantation of Lassie; extending up from the strand next to the aforesaid Lassie east by south 100 rods, and into the woods till the wagon road from Sapokanikan east 80 rods; along the same wagon road all the way through the marsh to Sapokanikan at the strand, and in various courses along the strand to the place of beginning south south west 125 rods; amounting to about 30 morgens with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 12 March 1647.

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_0174.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.