Document: Patent of Peter Hartgers for a lot at Beyerwyck (Albany)

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0109

Description

Patent. Peter Hartgers; lot at Beyerwyck (Albany).

Document Date

1659-09-01

Document Date (Date Type)

1659-09-01

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Pieter Hartgers a lot for a house located at Fort Orange in Beverwyck next to the house and lot of Willem Teller; it is in breadth in front on the street 2 rods, 9 feet, 9 inches; in front of the house (already built on the lot) until the creek it is in length on both sides 7 rods; in the rear along the creek it is 2 rods, 3 feet, 10 inches in breadth on both sides; the allowance for rain runoff is 6 inches, all Rhenish measure, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 1 September 1659.

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_0109.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.