Translation
Patent to Dirck Smit
Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Ensign Dirck Smit a piece of land lying on Long Island in Mespat, running southwest and northeast between Sergeant Jacob Luby and Jan Swaen along the marsh or path, which is in breadth 54 rods; running into the woods southeast and northwest it is in length 600 rods; making together 54 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...
Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 15 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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