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Other Finding Aids

Available at Repository

Item list: E.B. O'Callaghan's Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State (1866).

Folder list is available at the repository.

Translated in: New York Historical Manuscripts, Dutch: Land Papers, Volumes GG, HH & II, trans. and ed. Charles T. Gehring (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980). New York Historical Manuscripts, Dutch: Land Papers, Volumes GG, HH & II, trans. and ed. Charles T. Gehring (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980). Books GG and HH Part 2 contain recorded grants (patents) of land by the director and council of New Netherland, and a few Indian deeds. Book II (also designated as HH Part 1) contains recorded private conveyances (deeds).

Dutch patents for New Amsterdam are abstracted and mapped in I. N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, 6 vols. (New York: 1916; repr. Union, N.J.: 1998), 2:353-411. Dutch patents for Beverwyck (established 1654, renamed Albany in 1664) are abstracted and indexed in Janny Venema, Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1642-1664 (Hilversum and Albany: 2003), Appendices 3, 8.

Online Index

Link to Name Index Personal Name Index Each index entry includes the name and role of the individual referenced in the deed, the document date, its location within the series, and a link to a digitized copy of the deed.