Lot: Anthony Portuguese - 1645-09-05 (Original Grants and Farms)

Lot
Anthony Portuguese - 1645-09-05
Lot Group
Original Grants and Farms
Date Start
1645-09-05
To Party 1 (text)
Anthony Portuguese
From Party (Text)
Kieft
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D. Kieft to Anthony Portuguese

WiLLEM Kieft, Director, etc., to Anthony Portuguese. Ground-brief dated Sept. 5, 1645. — Liber GG: 117 (Albany).

Conveys "A piece of land lying at the west side of Manuel Trompetter on a Cripplebush (swamp) at the end of the foresaid Trompetter's land. S, E by S the land of Great (Big) Manuel 60 rods. At the end of aforesaid's land at the W by N side 45 rods. And further W by S W 17 rods: back to the Cripplebush (swamp) N W 67 rods. Along the Cripplebush 65 rods. Amounting together 6 morgens 425 rods.

This grant had earlier been in possession of Jan de ffort Orange. See recitals in Pa/^n/j, II: 128 — Dangola's grant.

Note as to the grant to Anthony Portuguese, Liber GG: 117 (Albany).

This patent is said to have been omitted from the volume of translations in the office of the secretary of state at Albany, and to have been found in the State Library.

Before 1694, Susannah Anthony Roberts, a free negress, was in possession of this tract. Recited in Liber Deeds, XVIII: 310, in that parcel of the Warren farm across the Minetta Water. For other land of this negress, see Vol. II: 302. Probably she was a descendant of Anthony Portuguese.

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