Translation
Patent to Lubbert Gysbertsen
Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Lubbert Gysbertsen a piece of land lying over the North River, bounded on the north side by the land of Jan Vingje and on the south side by the land of Jan Cornelisz Buys; extending along the river southwest by west, which is in breadth 90 rods; in the rear in the woods its breadth is 90 rods; running into the woods north northwest its length on both sides is 333 1/3 rods; making together 50 morgens, with the express conditions etc...
Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 5 December 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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