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Patent to Luycas Dircksen
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Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Luycas Dircksen a piece of land lying on Long Island in Mespat, which extends along the marsh or highway southwest and northeast in breadth 30 rods; in breadth in the rear in the woods it is 30 rods; it runs into the woods from the highway southeast and northwest and is in length on both sides to the swamp 330 rods; making together 16 morgens and 300 rods, with the express conditions , etc.. .
Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 21 November 1654.