ing one Hollands acre being excepted, and in case anye of the s d pattentees theyr associates heyres &c shall only improue theyr stocks in grasing or breeding of cattle, then the partie soe doing shall att the end of the ten yeares afforesaid paye or cause to be paid to an officer deputed as afores d such

reasonable sattisfact" in butter and cheese as other Inhabbat8 of other townes shall doe in the like cases

:

Likewise injoyning the said pattentees theyre associates heyres &c in the dating of all public

instruments to use the New Style w th the w ts k measure of this place.

Given under my hand k

Seale of this Prouince this 19 th of December in the fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Signed Endorsed,

1645.

Wilhem Kieft.

--Ter ordonnantie van de H Direct Generael & Raden van Nieuw Nederlandt. r

1,

Cornelis Van Tienhouen, Secretr.

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PAPERS RELATING TO LONG ISLAND.

In the name of the LORD

--Amen.

Description of the Founding or Beginning of for the information of us and our successors.

their Grants and Privileges likewise the

New

Utrecht,

Together with

names of their

and magistrates thereunto added and that from the year Sixteen hundred seven and fifty,

officers

also the

names of the first Patentees and

farmers, for the encouragement and

information of their

posterity.

A.D. 1657 The beginning and progress of New Utrecht. This land was originally granted to the Heer Cornelis Van Werckhoven, who was born in Utrecht in the Netherlands,