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This series consists predominantly of land patents, through which the director-general and council of New Netherland allowed private individuals to take possession of land in freehold. However, book GG also contains "Indian deeds" which record the purchase of land from Native Americans for the West India Company and several patroons. Records in the series span the years 1630-1649, 1651, 1654-1661, and 1664.
During Willem Kieft's tenure as director-general (1638-1647) the entire text of each patent was copied, sometimes requiring two pages to complete; under Petrus Stuyvesant (1647-1664) many patents were abbreviated and two often were copied on one page.
This series originally constituted Dutch record books GG and HH (referred to as HH, Part 2 in E.B. O'Callaghan's Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y.). The original records are in the Dutch language.
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