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Manuscript document signed "P Stuyvesant," in Dutch, issued to Dutch settlers Tunis Middagh and Tunis Boogert, granting a plot of land on Long Island.
Fort Amsterdam” [New York]: 24 October 1654. 1 page (310 x 405 mm). Signed “P Stuyvesant” and countersigned below Stuyvesant by another official. Framed. Condition: remnants of wax seal, edges trimmed, backed with window revealing docketting, affixed to matting along head with strip with early archival tape, one burn hole and a few punctures along folds affecting small amounts of text. Provenance: Thomas F. Madigan (early dealers label to verso of frame). The deed is also accompanied by a 1945 letter from R.W.G. Vail, Director of the New York Historical Society, authenticating the document. new york colonial land deed signed by peter stuyvesant, the last colonial governor of new amsterdam, for a tract of land near the brooklyn waterfront. This important land deed outlines in detail lands to be sold to two Dutch settlers, Tunis Middagh and Tunis Boogert, for lands adjoining the property’s of important Brooklyn waterfront settlers Joris de Rapalje and Hendrick Dircksen. It is known that in about 1650 Rapalje had bought a large portion of a tract of land known as “The Wallabout,” a marshy area in between what are now the Brookyln and Williamsburg Bridges, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A 1766 map of the area shows the Rapalje property at a waterfront point labeled “Brookland Ferry”, directly accross from the Manhattan ship-yards. Staunch Tories, the Rapalje lands were confiscated by the new Republic in 1784. This deed is signed almost exactly ten years to the month when Stuyvesant was forced to cede the lands of New Amsterdam in August, 1664 to England, in turn forming New York. a rare dutch colonial new york document.