Document: Patent of Peter Mees for a lot at Beverwyck (Albany)

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0111

Description

Patent. Peter Mees; lot at Beverwyck, east of the road, with a garden lot on the 3d kill east of Albert, the wheelwright, north of the wagon road (Albany).

Document Date

1660-08-17

Document Date (Date Type)

1660-08-17

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Pieter Mees a lot located at Fort Orange in the village of Beverwyck; south of Symon Root it is 7 rods, 4 feet in length; east of a road 4 rods in breadth; north of Eldert de Gooyer 7 rods, 4 feet in length; west of a road 4 rods in breadth; together with a lot for a garden located on the Third Kill; east of Albert de Raademaecker it is 9 rods in length; north of Andries de Vos 5 rods, 7 feet, 6 inches in breadth; east of a vacant lot it is 7 rods in length; south of a wagon road 5 rods, 7 feet and 6 inches in breadth, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 17 August 1660.

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_0111.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.