Document: Patent of Jacob Wolphertsen van Couwenhoven for land on Long Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0073

Description

Patent. Jacob Wolphertsen (van Couwenhoven); 10 morgens and 48 rods of land at the East river on Long Island, adjoining Cornelis Direcksen, the ferryman.

Document Date

1643-07-06

Document Date (Date Type)

1643-07-06

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Jacob Wolphertsz a piece of land located upon Long Island on the East River, where the land of Cornells Dircksz, the ferryman, borders on the west; extending from the said ferryman's land E. by S. along the river 56 rods and along the same towards the woods S. by E. 132 rods with a width back in the woods of 40 rods and on the east side N. by W. 120 rods; containing 10 morgens and 48 rods, with the express condition and stipulation etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 3 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_0073.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.