Translation
Patent to Cornelis Teunisz
We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Cornelis Teunisz, shoemaker, a certain lot located between the lots of Jan Jansz Schepmoes and Claes Jansz Ruyter; its breadth on the street on the north side is 2 rods; in the rear on the south side its breadth is 2 rods 5 feet; on the west along Ruyter's lot its length is 8 rods, 9 feet; on the east along Schepmoes's place 8 rods, 9 feet, 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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