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• Text of the 1647 Dutch Patent Granting Awiehaken to Maryn Adriaensen

  The attached document is a transcription of a transcription of the patent given by William Kieft, the Director-General of the Dutch New Netherland colony for a piece of land called 'Awiehaken' to one Maryn Adriaesen on May 11, 1647. The source for the text is History of the Land Titles in Hudson County, New Jersey - 1609-1871 by Charles H. Winfield (published 1872) - page 37.