Translation
Patent to Jacob Luby
Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Jacob Luby a piece of land lying on Long Island in Mespat, beginning at the division of Claes van Elslant's land and running along the marsh or highway southwest and northeast; it is in breadth 32 rods; running into the woods from the highway to the thicket, south east and northwest, it is in length 468¾ rods; making together 25 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...
Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 30 November 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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