Document: Caveat against granting Thomas Lovelace certain land near Staten Island

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Document ID
NYSA_A1881-78_V23_0238a
Description

Caveat against granting Thomas Lovelace certain land near Staten Island

Document Date
1674-04-18
Document Date (Date Type)
1674-04-18
Document Type
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Translation
Translation

Read and considered the petition of Jacob Melyn and Jacob Kip, as guardians of the widow of the late Cornelis Melyn, requesting that they may be allowed and granted possession (in consideration of the lands which said Cornelis Melyn reserved to himself when he sold Staten Island to the West India Company) of a certain piece of land situate between the mill-kill and Schutter's Island,[1] and that Thomas Lovelace may be refused said land which they understand he is applying for.Ordered:Petitioners shall within 14 days from this date show what right they have to any lands on Staten Island, or to the land allowed to Thomas Lovelace.

Translation Superscripts
[1]: At the mouth of Newark bay. — Ed.
References

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Location
Modern Location
To Party 1
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Thomas Lovelace
Related Ancestors (Unlinked)
Jacob Melyn
Jacob Kip
Widow of Cornelis Melyn
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