Document: Declaration of vice-director Beeckman

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Document ID

NYSA_A1878-78_V19_0062

Description

Declaration of vice-director Beeckman, that the land called Printsdorp, had been 18 years in possession of governor Prints and his daughter, who still owns it, and that a tract of land between Maritgies hook and Upland Kill had been donated by queen Christina to the father-in-law of Elias Hullengreen.

Document Date

1662-09-20

Document Date (Date Type)

1662-09-20

Document Type

Declaration

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Translation

At the request of Mr. Hendrick Huygen I have investigated the status of a certain piece of land located along the southwest side of Oplants Kil. The Swedish magistrates and other old inhabitants of the same nation have reported to me that the aforesaid land was called Prints Dorp by the Swedish governor, Johan Prints, and that his daughter has owned it for about 16 years and still is in possession of it. They are unaware that the aforesaid land was ever owned by Hans Ammonsen or his heirs, or that he ever did any farming there; but, they have heard it said by one Elias Hullengreen (after the arrival of Governor Rysingh) that his wife's father had by gift of decree from Queen Christina received a certain piece of land located between Maritiens Hoeck and Oplants Kil. I, the underwritten, declare to have received this report, dated 19 September 1662, in Fort Altena on the South River of New Netherland.

Willem Beeckman

Andries Swenson Bonde

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/A1878/NYSA_A1878-78_V19_0062.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Gehring, C. trans./ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vols. 18-19, Delaware Papers: Dutch Period, 1648-1664 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1981).

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.