Translation
Patent to Roeloff Jansz
Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Roeloff Jansz, butcher, a piece of land lying on Long Island in Mespat; beginning at the mark or division of William Bocker's land and running along the marsh or path southwest and northeast to the mark of Ryck Leydeckers land its breadth is 32 rods; in the rear in the woods its breadth is 32 rods; running into the woods from the path to the thicket southeast and northwest its length on both sides is 468¾ rods; making together 25 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...
Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 10 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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