Document: Patent of Volckert Evertsz for land on Long Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0173

Description

Patent. Volckert Evertsz; 49 morgens, 155 rods of land behind Jacus Bentyn's land on Long Island.

Document Date

1647-03-11

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-03-11

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Volckert Eversz a piece of land behind the land of Jacus Bentyn on Long Island; stretching from the marsh or kil S. E. by E. 90 rods S. E. 135 rods, S. S. E. 36, in width in the woods W. S. W. 90 rods to a marsh; W. N. W. 136 rods and along the marsh almost N. 200 rods, including a marsh lying within this parcel of an area of 2½ to 3 morgens; containing altogether 49 morgens 155 rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam, 11 March 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_0173.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.