New York Land Deed, Manhattan, 1684.

Description:

New York Land Deed, Manhattan, 1684.
Large sheet of laid paper, memorializing a real estate transaction between Derick and Coenradt Ten Eyck (1617-1686) [both identified as shoemakers] for a "certain tenement and lott of ground" on the west side of Prince's Graft [now Broad Street], in Manhattan; signed by Coenradt, by New York Mayor Gabriel Minvielle (c. 1644-1702),and others, with old folds, toning, fragmentary along some folds, with small pieces of paper loss, still legible, repaired from the verso, paper loss due to ink etching within the large calligraphic letters of the headline, 23 x 18 in.
Estimate $1,000-1,500


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