Document: Patent of Claes van Elslant for land on Manhattan Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0182

Description

Patent. Claes van Elslant; 12 morgens, 152 rods of land on Manhattan Island, adjoining Cornelis Claessen's land and the wagon road.

Document Date

1647-03-13

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-03-13

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Claes van Elslant a certain piece of land located on the island of Manhattan on the east end of the lands of Cornelis Claesz; it extends from the land of Cornelis Jacobsz until the wagon road north by east 80 rods; along the wagon road east ½ point northerly 76 rods; further south by east ½ point easterly 90 rods; further west ½ point southerly until the boundary marker of Eduaert Marrel 52 rods; further along the boundary until the land of the aforesaid Cornelis Claesz 42 rods, west a little northerly, being the place of beginning; amounting in all to 12 morgens, 152 rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 13 March 1647.

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_0182.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.