Translation
Patent to Gerrit Snediger
Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their High Mightinesses, etc... has given and granted to Gerrit Snediger a parcel of land located on Long Island in the village of Middewout on the west side of the road, to the north of the church's land, south of Cornelis Jansz; in breadth 27 rods and 4 feet; in length 600 rods extending west by south; containing 27 morgens, 240 rods; two pieces of marshland in common with Jan Snedicker: the first. No. 4, in breadth 7 rods, 5 feet; making 2 morgens; the other, No. 8, in breadth 12 rods; containing 3 morgens, extending southerly from the woods to the sea; a piece of flats, No. 29, in breadth 13 [ rods ]; containing 2½ morgens, extending south from the road to the woods, with the express conditions, etc...
Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 24 January 1664.
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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