Translation
Patent to Jan Jansen van Ditmersz
We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Jan Jansen van Ditmersz a plantation located south of Pieter de Schoorstenveger; it extends from a certain thicket next to the aforesaid Schoorsteenveger's land east south east and south east by east 135 rods until the marsh; along the aforesaid marsh 117 rods south by east and south south west a little westerly 60 rods, west north west a little northerly 34 rods, north north west 45 rods, north north west a little westerly 57 rods, north by west 46 rods, west south west 85 rods, north east by east 119 rods to the place of beginning, with certain protrusions; amounting in all to 29 morgens, 362 rods, with the express conditions etc...
Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 23 March 1647.
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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