Record ID:
429165
Accession number:
MA 956.2
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description:
1 item (1 page) ; 25.6 x 39.9 cm
Notes:
With red wax and paper seal; endorsed on verso.
With the signatures of Peter Stuyvesant and Jacob Rys.
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).
Summary:
Patent granting Frederick Jansen, ship's carpenter, a house and garden lot on the West side of the "Heere Wegh" between the lot of Jan Huygen and Willem Fredricksen; with endorsement on verso after a new survey of the property had been taken, dated 1659 April 4, and signed by Jaques Cortelyou, surveyor.
Provenance:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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