With trace of red wax seal; docketed on verso.
With the signatures of Peter Stuyvesant.
The lot of land specified in the document corresponds approximately to the present day lots of 17-19 Broadway in lower Manhattan.
One of a collection of 10 land grants, deeds, and other documents related to adjacent lots of land on lower Broadway in Manhattan created principally during the period of Dutch rule (see MA 956).
Patent granting Jan Huygen a house and garden lot on Manhattan along the "Heere Wagen Wech" between the churchyard and the lot of Hendrick Jansen; with an addendum dated February 26, 1659, stating the measurements of the property and granting it to Jan Huygen's widow; and a note in the lower corner at left stating that Jan Huygen is deceased and his widow married to Dirck Wiggerts, and giving the dimensions of the premises.