Translation
Patent to Herry Piers
We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Herry Piers a certain piece of land for a plantation located on the island of Manhattan known by the name of Gregorius's plantation, extending between Pieter Linde's plantation and the shore where the water runs over the stones; its breadth on the East River is 75 rods; it extends along the aforesaid north east and south west, and into the woods north west and south east until the division line of what is called Schepmoes's plantation; its length until the creek is 187 rods; the length between Pieter Linde's and Gregorius's is 190 rods; behind in the woods the breadth is 75 rods, with the express conditions etc...
Done at Fort Amsterdam, 15 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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