Translation
Patent to Dirck Ziecken
Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Dirck Ziecken a piece of land lying across the North River near Gemoenepaen, beginning at the division of Claes de Noorman's land at a creek which comes out of the woods and runs to the Company's land from which it is also divided by a creek which comes but of the woods; extending along the marsh northeast by east and southwest by south in breadth along the said marsh 300 rods; in the rear in the woods its breadth is 300 rods; extending into the woods northwest and southeast in length 100 rods, with the express conditions etc...
Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 16 June 1654.
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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