Document: Patent of Samuel Edsall

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0055b

Description

Patent of Samuel Edsall

Document Date

1656-06-20

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-06-20

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Samuel Edsall a lot lying within this city of Amsterdam, bounded on the west side by Hendrick Jansz Smit and on the east side by Nicolaes Backer; its breadth on the street or north side is 2 rods, 3 feet, 2½ inches; on the east its length is 3 rods, 5 feet, 5 inches; its breadth on the south side is 2 rods, 5 inches; and its length on the west side is 5 rods; with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 20 June 1656.

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_0055b.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.