Translation
Patent to Sybolt Claesz
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We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Sybolt Claesz a certain piece of land located on the island of Manhattan beginning at the point of the Hellegatt where Hogs' Island [ Varckens Eylant ] separates or ends; containing 50 morgens, with the express conditions etc...
Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 5 June 1646.
References
Translation: Gehring, C. trans./ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vols. GG, HH & II, Land Papers, 1630-1664 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1980).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.
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