Document: Patent of Touchyn Briel for land on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0077

Description

Patent. Touchyn Briel; 11 morgens, 330 rods of land on the north bank of the Fresh water, Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1645-10-19

Document Date (Date Type)

1645-10-19

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Touchyn Briel a piece of land located on the island of Manhattan containing 11 morgens, 330 rods by the great thicket between the negroes and Tomas de Smit; extending from the aforesaid thicket north east by east along the aforesaid land of Tomas 127 rods; and then to about the negroes west north west 55 rods; and along the aforesaid thicket 55 rods; without regarding some points of no importance along the thicket, 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_0077.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.