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Patent to Andries Herpertsz and Rutger Jacobsen
Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Andries Herpertsz and Rutger Jacobsen, inhabitants of the village of Beverwyck, an island in the North River about two miles below Fort Orange, obliquely opposite Bethlehem, in the Indian language called Pachonakellick, otherwise Mahicanders Island; containing about [ blank ] morgens, with the express conditions, etc...
Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 10 March 1661.
Note: The above patent has been confirmed and granted with the express condition as appears by the resolution dated 10 March 1661; if the aforesaid island should by determination of the Colony of Rensselaerswyck fall within the limits thereof, then the aforesaid owners shall be obligated to give up the aforesaid island, provided that in such event they shall be entitled to a just and equitable compensation for present and future expenses. Done as above.