Document: Patent of Jan Monfoort for land on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0189

Description

Patent. Jan Monfoort; lot on the northeast side of the Graft, Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1647-03-16

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-03-16

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_L-B

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Jan Monfoort a certain lot for a house and garden located on the north east side of the canal, mostly in the rear of Evert Duyckingh's lot; its length on the east side is 10 rods and 8 feet; its breadth on the north side along the thicket is 8 rods; its length on the west side next to Pieter Monfoort is 11 rods, 4 feet; its breadth on the south side or in front is 7 rods, 3 feet and 6 inches; amounting in all to 87 rods, 3 feet and 6 inches, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 16 March 1647.

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_0189.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.