Document: Patent of Volckert Jansen and Jan Thomassen for land at Fort Orange (Albany)

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0104

Description

Patent. Volckert Jansen and Jan Thomassen; meadow between the river and highway, across the Beaver kil, at Fort Orange (Albany).

Document Date

1659-03-31

Document Date (Date Type)

1659-03-31

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Volckert Jansen and Jan Thomassen a parcel of pasture land located near Fort Orange across the Bevers Kill along the river; in length from south to north it is 100 rods; its breadth is from the river's edge to the common highway, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 31 March 1659.

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_0104.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.