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In 2007 the deed of the granted land in Long Island was sold to a private collector for $ 156,000 becoming "one of the oldest Dutch documents in private hands". The deed dated 6 June 1636 is written in Dutch and outlines the purchase of the land (3,600-acre) from the Lenape
Indians.
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and managed it until 1636, when he was granted a patent of several hundred acres on Long Island. He called his plantation "Achervelt"; later it served as the founding of the town of New
Amersfoort, named after Gerritse's original home. Today the area is known as
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Some descendants of
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His contract was to run through 1636, but
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Wolfert ran a baking and clothes bleaching business, when in 1625 he was assigned as one of the first settlers to cultivate farms in the New
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to return to the colony to manage his farms. Wolphert arrived back in the colony aboard the ship "Eendracht", where he proceeded in his duties as director for
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The deed is signed by the Dutch colonial governor, Wouter von
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