Translation
Patent to Christoffel Davids
Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Christoffel Davids a parcel of land containing 36 morgens located about one mile from the North River at Esopus on the west side of the large creek opposite the land of Thomas Chambers; running southwest and northeast to the middle of a small inner waterway on the side of the marsh, which is the division between this parcel of land and the land of Johan de Hulter, deceased; with as much marshland as shall be parcelled out pro rata to the other farms, with the express conditions, etc...
Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 25 September 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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