Document: Patent of Cornelis van Ruyven for a lot on Manhattan island

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NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0005

Description

Patent. Cornelis van Ruyven; lot in the Sheep Pasture, New Amsterdam, island of Manhattan, with reservation for a burgwall, or street, hereafter along the side thereof.

Document Date

1654-04-16

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-04-16

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Cornelis van Ruyven a lot lying on the island of Manhattan in the Sheep Pasture; on the south side along the division line of Albert Pietersz Trompeter its breadth is 7 rods; on the north side its breadth extends into the Sheep Pasture 7 rods; in length on the east side along the division line of Mr. La Montagnie's land it is 10 rods, ½ foot; in length on the west side it is 10 rods, ½ foot; but if there should be a bulwark or street laid out along the said lot, then the same shall serve as a boundary, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 16 April 1654.

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_VHHpt2_0005.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.