Document: Patent of Peter Wolphersz van Couwenhoven for land on Manhattan Island

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Document ID
NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0137b
Description

Patent. Peter Wolphersz (van Couwenhoven); lot on Manhattan Island.

Document Date
1646-03-17
Document Date (Date Type)
1646-03-17
Document Type
Dutch Grant Lot(s)

Translation
Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Pieter Wolphersz a certain lot for a house and garden located on the island of Manhattan between the lots of Olof Stevensz and the aforesaid Pieter Wolphersz; its breadth on the road is 4 rods; its length next to Olof Stevensz' lot is 10 rods; its length next to Pieter's lot is 10 rods; amounting in all to 41½ rods, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 17 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_0137b.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.

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Peter Wolphersz van Couwenhoven
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