Document: Patent of Lubbert Gysbertsen for land across the North river (New Jersey)

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NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0034

Description

Patent. Lubbert Gysbertsen; 50 morgens of land across the North river, north of Jan Cornelissen Buys, above mentioned (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 Lubbert Gysbertsen a piece of land lying over the North River, bounded on the north side by the land of Jan Vingje and on the south side by the land of Jan Cornelisz Buys; extending along the river southwest by west, which is in breadth 90 rods; in the rear in the woods its breadth is 90 rods; running into the woods north northwest its length on both sides is 333 1/3 rods; making together 50 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_0034.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.