Title: [Peter Stuyvesant deed conveying land to Adriaen Hegeman]

Date: April 12, 1661

Creator: Stuyvesant, Peter, 1592-1672

Adriaen Hegeman

Description:
This 1661 deed, signed by Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherlands, conveyed a plot of land in the village of Vlack Bos (Flatbush) to Adriaen Hegeman, an early Dutch settler. In 1784, Peter Lefferts (1753-1791) married Femmetie Hegeman (1760-1847), an ancestor of Adriaen. After their marriage, Peter arranged to purchase 100 acres of the original Hegeman plot, thus enlarging the Lefferts family’s Flatbush homestead. After this transaction, the original deed passed into the hands of the Lefferts family.

Format: deed

Citation:
Peter Stuyvesant deed conveying land to Adriaen Hegeman, April 12, 1661; Lefferts family papers, ARC.145, box OS1; Brooklyn Historical Society.

Language: Dutch

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