Document: Patent of Roelof Jansen Haes of land northeast of the fort

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0075

Description

Patent. Roelof Jansen Haes; lot on the south end of the Company's valley, and northeast of the fort, containing 18 rods, 9 ft. (New Amsterdam); 19th Feb., 1647, an addition was granted to the above lot.

Document Date

1643-07-06

Document Date (Date Type)

1643-07-06

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_C15

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Roelof Jansen Haes a lot for a house and garden located at the south end of the Company's marsh and north east from the fort; the breadth in front of the house and along the old canal is 3 rods; and along the marsh 6 rods; the breadth behind is 3 rods and 3 feet and along the other side; amounting to 18 rods and 3 feet, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 6 July 1643.

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_0075.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.