Document: Patent of Rutger Arentsen van Seyl for a lot of land east of the Great Highway

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0079

Description

Patent. Rutger Arentsen van Seyl; lot east of the Great Highway (New Amsterdam), containing 88 rods, 4 ft. 9 in.

Document Date

1643-07-13

Document Date (Date Type)

1643-07-13

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_C11

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Rutger Arentsen van Seyl a lot for a house and garden; bounded on the east by the common highway; northward by the land of Cornelis Volckertsz; its breadth along the highway is 4 rods, 9 feet; its length along the aforesaid lot of Cornelis Volckertsz is 18 rods, 2 feet, 5 inches and 6 grains; in the rear its breadth is 4 rods and 9 feet; on the other side the length is 18 rods, 2 feet, 5 inches and 6 grains; amounting to 88 rods, 4 feet, 9 inches and 4 grains, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 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_0079.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.