Document: Patent of Olof Stevensz van Cortland for a lot on Manhattan Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0104

Description

Patent. Olof Stevensz (van Cortland), commissary; lot on the road between Gysbert op Dyck and Harmen Myndertsz, Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1645-09-05

Document Date (Date Type)

1645-09-05

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Olof Stevensz, commissary, a lot for a house and garden located on the island of Manhattan on the road between the lots of Gysbert Op Dyck and Harmen Meyndertsz; bounded on the north side or the rear by the lot of Willem Moris; its breadth in the front on the aforesaid road or on the south side is 5 rods, 4 feet, 7 inches; its length on the east side next to the aforesaid Op Dyck is 10 rods, one foot and 8 inches; its breadth in the rear of said Moris or on the north side is 6 rods, 2 feet, one inch; its length on the west side or next to the aforesaid Meyndertsz is 9 rods, 2 feet, 3 inches; amounting in all to 56 rods, 6 feet and [ blank ] inches, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 5 September 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_0104.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.