Document: Patent of Leendert Aerden for a lot on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0103

Description

Patent. Leendert Aerden; lot on the public Highway, Manhattan Island.

Document Date

1645-09-22

Document Date (Date Type)

1645-09-22

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_B4

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Leendert Aerden a lot for a house and garden located south of the lot of Aert Teunisz on the common highway; its breadth along the aforesaid road is 4 rods, 8 feet; its length on the south side is 17 rods; in the rear on the east side its breadth is 5 rods; its length on the north side or next to Aert Teunisz is 17 rods; amounting in all to 84 rods, one foot, 4 inches, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam, 22 September 1645.

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_0103.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.