Document: Patent of Jan Catjou for land on Long Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0059

Description

Patent. Jan Catjou; 25 morgens land in Mespat, Long Island.

Document Date

1656-08-21

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-08-21

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Jan Catjou a lot lying in Mespat having on the north side Jacob Lube and on the south side Roeloff Jansen, the butcher; running along the marsh southeast and northwest its breadth along the edge of the marsh is 32 rods; running into the woods southeast and northwest its length on both sides is 468¾ rods; its breadth in the woods is 32 rods, making together 25 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...

Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 21 August 1656.

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_0059.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.