Document: Patent of Philip Geraerdy for a double lot of land on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0093

Description

Patent. Philip Geraerdy: double lot on the common Highway, Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1644-05-24

Document Date (Date Type)

1644-05-24

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_B2

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Philip Geraerdy a lot for two houses and garden located on the common highway north of the lot of Cornelis Volkertsz; it extends along the aforesaid common road 8 rods and 6 feet; on the north side its length is 17 rods; in the rear its breadth is 8 rods; on the south side its length is 18 rods, 2 feet, 5 inches and 6 grains; amounting in all to 146 rods, one foot and 4 inches, with the express conditions etc. ..

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 24 May 1644.

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_0093.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.