Translation
Patent to Jan Martensen
Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Jan Martensen a parcel of land located in the village of Amesfoort on the northwest side of Pieter Claesen, on the west side an interior marsh, on the southeast side a creek; containing 12 morgens, 182 rods; also, a parcel of flats bordering on the southeast side of Pieter Wolphersz van Couwenhooven; the northwest side Govert Loocquermans; in breadth it is 38 rods; in length 162 rods; containing 10 morgens, with the express conditions, etc...
Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 20 August 1660.
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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