Document: Patent of Paulus van der Beeke for a lot on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0145

Description

Patent. Paulus van der Beeke; lot on the Graft, Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1646-05-12

Document Date (Date Type)

1646-05-12

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_C14

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Paulus van der Beeke a certain lot for a house and garden located between the lot of Willem Bredenbent and Ensign de Leeuw; in breadth in front of the canal or on the south side 6 rods, 3 feet, 3 inches; its length on the east side or next to the aforesaid Ensign de Leeuw 11 rods, 8 feet, one inch; its breadth on the north side or behind at the thicket 6 rods, 6 feet and 8 inches; its length on the west side or next to Bredenbent's 13 rods, one inch; amounting in all to 80 rods, 7 feet, 7 inches, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort New Amsterdam, 12 May 1646.

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_0145.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.