Document: Patent of Wouter van Twiller for Red Hook, Long Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0066

Description

Patent. Wouter van Twiller, ex-director; Red Hook, Long Island (Brooklyn).

Document Date

1643-06-22

Document Date (Date Type)

1643-06-22

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Wouter van Twiller, late director in New Netherland, a piece of land called the Red Hook, located on the North River, with express condition and stipulation etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland 22 June 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_0066.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.