Document: Patent of Cornelis Volckersz for a double lot on the Great Highway

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0083

Description

Patent. Cornelis Volckersz; double lot on the Great Highway (New Amsterdam).

Document Date

1643-07-13

Document Date (Date Type)

1643-07-13

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_B1

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Cornelis Volckertsz a double lot for two houses and two gardens located on the common highway; its breadth along the aforesaid road is 9 rods and 8 feet, and below on the marsh of the same breadth; its length on the north side is 18 rods, 2 feet, 5 inches and 6 grains; and on the south side the same length; amounting to 187 rods, 8 feet and 5 inches, 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_0083.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.