Document: Patent of Sybolt Claesz for land on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0220b

Description

Patent. Sybolt Claesz; lot on the highway, Manhattan Island, near Jan Damen's land.

Document Date

1647-05-15

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-05-15

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Sybolt Claesz a certain lot for a house and garden located on the island of Manhattan along the public highway, bounded on the south side by Cornelis Groesen and on the north side by Pieter Colet, deceased; its breadth along the public road is 4 rods long until the post and rail fence of Jan Damen; its breadth in the rear is 4 rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 15 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_0220b.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.