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- GLC#
- GLC03107.00118-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1684/11/04
- Author/Creator
- Dongan, Thomas, 1634-1715
- Title
- Land patent for Robert Livingston
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket : Height: 31.7 cm, Width: 20.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- Native Americans
Robert Livingston's original deed for a tract of land purchased from two Indians and located on the eastern shore of the Hudson River in a region known as Roeloffe Johnsons Kill. In return for this tract of land, Livingston's yearly "Quit Rent" due to his Majesty was twenty shillings. P. 2 contains a certification statement and signature by Lewis A. Scott. Written at Fort James (formerly Fort Amsterdam)
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