Document: Patent of Sybout Claesz for land on Manhattan Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0149

Description

Patent. Sybout Claesz; 50 morgens land on the island of Manhattan, beginning at Hellgate point, where Hog island terminates.

Document Date

1646-06-05

Document Date (Date Type)

1646-06-05

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Sybolt Claesz a certain piece of land located on the island of Manhattan beginning at the point of the Hellegatt where Hogs' Island [ Varckens Eylant ] separates or ends; containing 50 morgens, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 5 June 1646.

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_0149.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.