Document: Patent of Baltalazar Stuyvesant for a lot in New Amsterdam

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0223

Description

Patent. Baltalazar Stuyvesant; lot adjoining Nicolas William Stuyvesant, in city New Amsterdam, west of the Great Highway.

Document Date

1649-07-20

Document Date (Date Type)

1649-07-20

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_A17

Translation

We, the Director-General and Council, etc... have given and granted to Baltas-Lasar Stuyvesant a lot for a house and garden located in the city of New Amsterdam, bounded on the south by Nicolaes Willem Stuyvesandt; extending in front or along the public highway from north of the Company's garden in breadth 7½ Rhenish rods, and on each side in length 20 rods; in the rear along the North River the breadth is 7½ rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 20 July 1649.

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_0223.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.