Document: Patent of Martin Cregier for land in New Amsterdam

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NYSA_A1880-78_VHHpt2_0135b

Description

Patent. Martin Cregier; lot on the west side of the Great Highway, New Amsterdam, in place of a lot granted him 18 May, 1643, and surrendered.

Document Date

1664-01-26

Document Date (Date Type)

1664-01-26

Document Type

Patent

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Translation

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Marten Cregier, captain-lieutenant (for and in place of a certain lot granted to him by General Kieft dated 18 May 1643, which he conveyed back to the Company) a lot for a house and garden located within this city on the west side of the great highway, to the north of Anna Cocx, south of Francois Boon; in breadth on the east side 40 wood feet and 5 inches; on the west side 44 wood feet and 5 inches; in length on the north and south sides 13 rods, with the express conditions, etc...

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 26 January 1664.

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_0135b.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.