Document: Patent of Tymen Jansen for land on Long Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0082

Description

Patent. Tymen Jansen; 22 morgens, 324 rods of land, with valley on Long Island (Newtown).

Document Date

1643-07-13

Document Date (Date Type)

1643-07-13

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Tymen Jansz a piece of land located on Long Island behind the chimneysweep about S.W. from the land of Burger Jorissen and touching with the south point the point of Jan Platneus; extending along Burger's land S. S. E. from one marsh to the other 165 rods with some promontories in form of a half sickle of 15 rods; and again to Burger's land, being the first starting place 147 rods N. by W.; containing together with a similar triangular point 22 morgens 324 rods; including a marsh extending around this land, not mentioned here, with the express condition and stipulation etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam, 13 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_0082.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.