translations (documents)

English translation of a deed for the sale of land on Long Island comprising modern day Nassau County and Jamaica and Flushing, Queens, from Mechowodt, sachem of the Massapequa Indians, along with Piscamoc, Wattewochkeouw, Kachpohor, and Ketachquawars on behalf of the Massapequa Indians to the Dutch West India Company; witnessed by David Pietersz. de Vries and Maurits Jansen; signed by Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary; late 17th century translation by Peter Delanoy. This deed is unusual in that the Massapequa retain the right to dwell, fish, hunt, and farm on the land.

Late 18th or early 19th century English translation of a Dutch land grant from Peter Stuyvesant, Director General of New Netherlands, to Rutger Joesten Van Brunt for land at New Utrecht; Cornelis Van Ruyven, secretary.