Document: Patent of Jacob Luby for land on Long Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0027

Description

Patent. Jacob Luby; 25 morgens of land at Mespat, Long Island.

Document Date

1654-11-30

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-11-30

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Jacob Luby a piece of land lying on Long Island in Mespat, beginning at the division of Claes van Elslant's land and running along the marsh or highway southwest and northeast; it is in breadth 32 rods; running into the woods from the highway to the thicket, south east and northwest, it is in length 468¾ rods; making together 25 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 30 November 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_0027.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.