Document: Patent of Tymen Jansen for land on the island of Manhattan

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0071

Description

Patent. Tymen Jansen; 646 rods 10 ft. 5 in. of land on the island of Manhattan.

Document Date

1643-07-03

Document Date (Date Type)

1643-07-03

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_Q12

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Tymen Jansen a piece of land located on Manhattan; bounded on the west by the land of Hendrick Jansen; extending west by north and west north west 37 rods, 7 feet; and 20 rods, 10 feet, one inch south; a little west 24 rods, 5 feet, 6 inches; another 17 rods, 6 feet, 10 inches south west; a little south with a point projecting easterly 2 rods, 4½ feet; amounting in all to 646 rods, 10 feet and 5 inches, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 3 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_0071.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.