Document: Patent of Wessel Evertsz for land on Manhattan Island

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VGG_0151

Description

Patent. Wessel Evertsz; lot on Manhattan Island, containing 133 rods, 6 ft., 5 in.

Document Date

1646-07-02

Document Date (Date Type)

1646-07-02

Document Type

Patent

Dutch Grant Lot(s)

grant_lot_N7

Translation

We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Wessel Evertsz a certain lot for a house and garden bounded on the east by Jacob Wolpertsz and on the west by Burger Jorisz' lot; its breadth on the south side is 17 rods, 5 feet; on the west 9 rods, 3 feet; in the rear or on the north side its breadth is 15 rods, 5 feet; on the east side next to Burger Jorisz 6 rods, 9 feet; amounting in all to 133 rods, 6 feet, 5 inches, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 2 July 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_0151.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.