Document: Patent of Domingo Antony for land on the island of Manhattan

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0080

Description

Patent. Domingo Antony, negro; 5 morgens of land on the island of Manhattan, and 505 rods behind Bouwery No. 5, near the Fresh water.

Document Date

1643-07-13

Document Date (Date Type)

1643-07-13

Document Type

Patent

Original Farm or Grant

original_grants_and_farms_Domingo Antony - 1643-07-13

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Domingo Antony, Negro, a piece of land containing 5 morgens located on the island of Manhattan, and 505 rods behind farm No. 5; extending from about the wagon road west by north to the fresh water at the thicket; towards the land of Tomas Sandersz north 36 rods; and north by west 60 rods; and along the land of Tomas Sandersz to the aforesaid thicket 20 rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 13 July 1643.

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_0080.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.