Translation
Aryaen Pietersz van Alckmaer
We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Aryaen Pietersz van Alckmaer a certain piece of land located on the island of Manhattan near Sapokanikan, bounded on the south by the plantation of Jan Virginyes and on the north by Jan van Rotterdam; its breadth along the strand is 65 rods; its length into the woods, extending south east by east on each side, is 200 rods long; in the rear in the woods its breadth, extending south south west, is 65 rods, with the express conditions etc...
Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 13 April 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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