Document: Patent of Jan Snediker for a double lot of land on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0101

Description

Patent. Jan Snediker; double lot south of the fort on Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1645-07-00

Document Date (Date Type)

1645-07-01

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_G3

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Jan Snediker a double lot for two houses and two gardens located south of the fort on the island of Manhattan; bounded on the east by the land of Hans Hansen and on the west by the land of Jacob Constapel; its breadth in front of the house is 5 rods, 4 feet; its length on the side of Hans Hansen is 9 rods, 8 feet and 3 inches; its breadth in the rear on the side next to the fort is 4 rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, July 1645.

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_0101.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.