STUYVESANT, PETER, 1602?-1682, Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam . Manuscript document signed ("P Stuyvesant" with large calligraphic flourish), "Niew Amsterdam" [New York, N.Y.], 22 September, 1653. 1 page, oblong 4to, 318 x 420 mm. (12½ x 16 3/8 in.), ORIGINAL EMBLEMATIC SEAL INTACT: a crest with a beaver on escutcheon). text in an ornate Dutch court hand (signed at bottom by the scribe, Carel Van Brugge), the paper a bit brittle, marginal tears, separated along central vertical fold catching a few letters text, neatly silked from verso, in Dutch. Rare. NEW AMSTERDAM, NEW NETHERLANDS, 1653 Stuyvesant confirms the granting of a plot of land to Domine Gideon Schaets: "Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their Excellencies the Lords States General of the United Netherlands and the Honorable Lords Directors of the Priv. West Indies Company, The Director General of New Netherland, Curacao and the Island thereof, together with the Honorable Council, declares that today...they have given and granted to Domine Gideon Schaets a lot in the jurisdiction of Fort Orange [present-day Albany, New York], situate between Mr. Rensselaer's garden and beginning at the clapboard fence of Abram Pietersen, bounded on the east by a wagon road, on the south by another road, and on the west by an unoccupied lot...under condition and obligations that he...shall acknowledge the noble Lords Directors as his Masters and Patroons...to obey in everything their Director General and Council, as good inhabitants are in duty bound to do...submit to all such taxes and tithes..." Documents signed by this important Dutch Governor are quite rare on the market. In the last 21 years, according to ABPC, only four documents and two signatures have been offered.
STUYVESANT, PETER, 1602?-1682, Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam . Manuscript document signed ("P Stuyvesant" with large calligraphic flourish), "Niew Amsterdam" [New York, N.Y.], 22 September, 1653. 1 page, oblong 4to, 318 x 420 mm. (12½ x 16 3/8 in.), ORIGINAL EMBLEMATIC SEAL INTACT: a crest with a beaver on escutcheon). text in an ornate Dutch court hand (signed at bottom by the scribe, Carel Van Brugge), the paper a bit brittle, marginal tears, separated along central vertical fold catching a few letters text, neatly silked from verso, in Dutch. Rare. NEW AMSTERDAM, NEW NETHERLANDS, 1653 Stuyvesant confirms the granting of a plot of land to Domine Gideon Schaets: "Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of their Excellencies the Lords States General of the United Netherlands and the Honorable Lords Directors of the Priv. West Indies Company, The Director General of New Netherland, Curacao and the Island thereof, together with the Honorable Council, declares that today...they have given and granted to Domine Gideon Schaets a lot in the jurisdiction of Fort Orange [present-day Albany, New York], situate between Mr. Rensselaer's garden and beginning at the clapboard fence of Abram Pietersen, bounded on the east by a wagon road, on the south by another road, and on the west by an unoccupied lot...under condition and obligations that he...shall acknowledge the noble Lords Directors as his Masters and Patroons...to obey in everything their Director General and Council, as good inhabitants are in duty bound to do...submit to all such taxes and tithes..." Documents signed by this important Dutch Governor are quite rare on the market. In the last 21 years, according to ABPC, only four documents and two signatures have been offered.
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