Document: Patent of Peter Wolphersz van Couwenhoven for land on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0137b

Description

Patent. Peter Wolphersz (van Couwenhoven); lot on Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1646-03-17

Document Date (Date Type)

1646-03-17

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_D6

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Pieter Wolphersz a certain lot for a house and garden located on the island of Manhattan between the lots of Olof Stevensz and the aforesaid Pieter Wolphersz; its breadth on the road is 4 rods; its length next to Olof Stevensz' lot is 10 rods; its length next to Pieter's lot is 10 rods; amounting in all to 41½ rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 17 March 1646.

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_0137b.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.