Translation
Patent to Jan Jacobsen Carpenel
Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Jan Jacobsen Carpenel a piece of land lying on Long Island beyond Hellgate, extending on the west side to the land of Adriaen Dircksz Coen, and on the east side to the Company's land; it is in breadth along the creek or marsh, running west northwest and east southeast 50 rods; running into the woods west southwest to the Great Thicket in length on both side 300 rods; in breadth in the rear along the said thicket 50 rods; making together 25 morgens, with the express conditions etc...
Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 22 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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