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1696 DEED FOR LAND IN NEW YORK

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1696 DEED FOR LAND IN NEW YORK
Manuscript D.S. 1p. small folio parchment, New York, May, 1696, a deed in which Heyttie Clopper, widow of prominent New Amsterdam landowner Cornelius Clopper, sells a parcel of land in "The Province of New York" to another individual. The fact that Clopper's holdings were in New Amsterdam and that this parcel is very small and located on a corner indicates that it was located somewhere in what is now New York City. Faded slightly, folds, with a pencil note at top, else quite good. With small wax pendant seal.