Translation
Patent to Johanne de Laet
Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Mrs. Johanne de Laet, widow and administratrix of Johan de Hulter, deceased, a parcel of land lying in Esopus, containing in arable marsh and woodland 500 morgens; bounded north by the land of Thomas Chambers and Christoffel Davits, from which it is divided by a large creek, and is divided further north by a small creek from the land on which Juriaen van Westphalen at present resides, with the express conditions, etc...
Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, 27 March 1657.
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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