Document: Patent of Roelof Jansen for land on Long Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0039

Description

Patent. Roelof Jansen, butcher; 25 morgens of land at Mespat, Long Island.

Document Date

1654-12-11

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-12-11

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Roeloff Jansz, butcher, a piece of land lying on Long Island in Mespat; beginning at the mark or division of William Bocker's land and running along the marsh or path southwest and northeast to the mark of Ryck Leydeckers land its breadth is 32 rods; in the rear in the woods its breadth is 32 rods; running into the woods from the path to the thicket southeast and northwest its length on both sides is 468¾ rods; making together 25 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 10 December 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_0039.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.