Translation
Patent to Hendrick Jansen van Jeveren
Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted unto Hendrick Jansen van Jeveren a piece of land located beyond Hellgate on Long Island bounded on the west side by Lieven Jansz and on the east side by Adrian Dirckz; its breadth along the creek or the marsh extending west northwest and east southeast is 50 rods; running into the woods west southwest to the great thicket its length on both sides is 300 rods; running along the said swamp its breadth is 50 rods; making together 25 morgens. (Note the above describing parcel of land was surveyed and laid out for Jeurriaen Fradel, but as he has sold his right thereto to the above mentioned Hendrick Jansz, this patent is, at the request of the parties, made out in his name.) With the express conditions, etc...
Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 25 August 1656.
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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