Document: Patent of Claes Jansen van Naerden for land on Long Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0109

Description

Patent. Claes Jansen van Naerden; 21 morgens, 200 rods land on Long Island, southeast of fort Amsterdam, adjoining the property of Frerick Lubbersz and Jan Manje (Brooklyn).

Document Date

1645-09-30

Document Date (Date Type)

1645-09-30

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Claes Jansen van Naerden a piece of land lying about S. by E. somewhat E. opposite to the fort on Long Island and bounded S. W. and S. E. by Frerick Lubbersz and N. E. by Jan Manje, stretching along said Jan Manje's land from the strand S. E. ½ point 180 rods, S. E. 50 rods south of the hill S. W. by W. and W. S. W. 80 rods, again through the woods along the land of said Frerick N. W. by N. 118 rods and again 50 rods N. W. by W., then along the strand 74 rods, containing altogether 21 morgens 200 rods; with the express condition and stipulation etc...

Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland 30 September 1645.

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_0109.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.