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Stuyvesant, Peter, 1592-1672 [Land grant to Christian Pietersen in Bergen, part of New Netherland] [in Dutch],

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC10017 Author/Creator: Stuyvesant, Peter, 1592-1672 Place Written: New Amsterdam, New Netherland Type: Manuscript document signed Date: September 14, 1662 Pagination: 1 item Order a Copy

One Dutch document concerning a land grant to Christian Pietersen in Bergen dated May 4, 1667. Verso has a manuscript (also in Dutch) signed by Christian Pietersen and five others and dated 4 May 1667 from Bergen. The land granted consisted of two lots with a garden and farm house. Written in a compressed Elizabethan secretarial hand in Dutch, with paper seal. Signed by Stuyvesant as governor.

Stuyvesant, Peter, 1592-1672
Pietersen, Christian, fl. 1662-1667

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