Document: Patent of Reyck Leydecker for land on Long Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0038

Description

Patent. Reyck Leydecker; 25 morgens of land in Mespat, Long Island.

Document Date

1654-12-10

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-12-10

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Reyck Leydecker a piece of land lying on Long Island in Mespat, beginning at the division of Roeloff Jansen, butcher, and running along the marsh or path southwest and northeast to the mark of Ulderick Engelbort's land which is in breadth 32 rods; in the rear in the woods it is 32 rods in breadth; running into the woods from the path towards the southeast and northwest its length on both sides is 468¾ rods; making together 25 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 10 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_0038.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.