Document: Patent of Jan Cornelissen for land across the North river (New Jersey)

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NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0032

Description

Patent. Jan Cornelissen, shoemaker; 25 morgens of land across the North river, between Gemoenepae and the Kil van Kol (New Jersey).

Document Date

1654-12-05

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-12-05

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Jan Cornelissen Schoenmaecker a piece of land lying across the North River between Gemoenepaen and the Kil van Kol; extending along the river or bay southwesterly it is 40 rods in breadth; and in the rear in the woods it is 40 rods in breadth; running into the woods north northwest in length on both sides it is 375 rods in length making together 25 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 5 December 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_0032.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.