Document: Patent of Jan Jansen Damen for land on Manhattan Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0137a

Description

Patent. Jan Jansen Damen; 20 morgens, 386 rods land, called the Calck hook on Manhattan Island, for the past ten years in the occupation of said Damen.

Document Date

1646-03-15

Document Date (Date Type)

1646-03-15

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Jan Jansz Damen a certain piece of land located on the island of Manhattan known by the name of the Calckhoeck, previously farmed by the aforesaid Jan Damen 10 years ago; containing according to the surveyor's map 20 morgens, 386 rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 15 March 1646.

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_0137a.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.