Translation
Patent to Baltasar Stuyvesant
We, the Director-General and Council, etc... have given and granted to Baltas-Lasar Stuyvesant a lot for a house and garden located in the city of New Amsterdam, bounded on the south by Nicolaes Willem Stuyvesandt; extending in front or along the public highway from north of the Company's garden in breadth 7½ Rhenish rods, and on each side in length 20 rods; in the rear along the North River the breadth is 7½ rods, with the express conditions etc...
Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 20 July 1649.
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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