Document: Patent of Sergeant Huyberts for land on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0221

Description

Patent. Sergeant Huyberts; lot south of fort Amsterdam, Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1647-05-16

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-05-16

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_H3

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Sargant Huybertsz a certain lot for a house and garden located south of Fort Amsterdam, west of the lot of Jan Evertsz; its length on the east side is 8 rods, 3 feet, 2 inches; its breadth on the north side is 2 rods, 4 feet; its length on the west side is 5 rods, 3 feet, 8 inches; on the south side its breadth is 3 rods and 8 feet; amounting in all to 21 rods, 8 inches, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam, 19 May 1647.

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_0221.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.