Document: Patent of Cornelis Theunissen for land on Long Island

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Document ID

NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0083

Description

Patent. Cornelis Theunissen; 25 morgens of land at Amesfoort, on Long Island, on condition the farm be fenced within one year (Flattlands).

Document Date

1657-06-01

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-06-01

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Cornelis Theunissen a piece of land located at Amesfoort on Long Island, beginning at the boundary line of Pieter Claesz' pallisades to the wagon road from the Stroom Kill; it runs west southwest in breadth 40 rods; running into the woods south by west in length 300 rods on both sides; extending in the rear to Pieter Claesz' land east by north in breadth 60 rods; making altogether 25 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 1 June 1657.

The above patent is approved upon the condition that the land therein described shall be fenced in within one year and six weeks, or otherwise the aforesaid shall be void as stipulated by the patent.

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_VHHpt2_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.