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Patent to Pieter van Linden
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We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Pieter van Linden a certain lot for a house located on the island of Manhattan; southward close to the fiscal's kitchen; westward to the minister's lodgings; its breadth on the east end is 2 rods 3 feet; its length on the north end opposite the aforesaid kitchen in one rod, 6 feet, 5 inches; on the west side its length is 2 rods, 3 feet; on the south side its breadth is one rod, 8 feet; amounting in all to 4 rods, one foot, 5 inches, with the express conditions etc...
Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 23 March 1646.