Document: Patent of Roelof Martensen for land on Long Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0118

Description

Patent. Roelof Martensen; 23 morgens, 75 rods of land by the village of Amesfoort, Long Island (Flattlands).

Document Date

1661-01-29

Document Date (Date Type)

1661-01-29

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Roeloff Martensen a parcel of land located on Long Island near the village of Amesfoort bordering the land of Jan Martensz; it is in length on the northeast side 170 rods; on the southwest 200 rods; in breadth on the southeast 90 rods; on the northwest 60 rods; containing 23 morgens and 75 rods, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 29 January 1661.

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_0118.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.