Hi all, See: http://www.nnp.org/nni/Publications/zwieten.pdf I'm not sure this answers Steve's original question, but it does give a good background with many references. And it does mention paying in installments. I think Steve is right that that 25 guilders mentioned is only the last payment and Adam had paid more earlier. Regards, Howard hswain@ix.netcom.com

Hi Howard, You are a wizard! You find the most incredible things on the internet. I found the article to be both interesting and informative. For me it underscored how very different Roman/Dutch law is from English common law. However, I do not feel that it addressed the original question regarding the issuance of a second land patent to the grantee named in a deed, which had conveyed the subdivided portion of a parcel of land, for which an original patent had already been issued. The issuance of the second land patent for the subdivided parcel indicates to me that the Dutch authorities were keeping much tighter control over their colonial settlers than their English counterparts were. For instance, William Penn's dream of a "greene country towne", which would extend from the west bank of the Delaware River to the east bank of the Schuylkill River between Race and Lombard Streets, was dashed to pieces when Penn's grantees discovered that they could legally subdivide their lots without his permission. Consequently, Philadelphia hugged the west bank of the Delaware River for more than a hundred years. However, unlike the Dutch, when William Penn conveyed land to his settlers, he reserved only the right to free and common socage. As R.W. Lee observed Roman/Dutch law has no equivalent for free and common socage. In Pennsylvania free and common socage was collected in the form of a nominal quit rent, which in many cases was not collected in a regular and timely manner. However, real estate taxes were collected regularly. I also found the forfeiture provisions discussed in the article to be absolutely mind boggling. Leslie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Swain" <hswain@ix.netcom.com> To: <dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:04 PM Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] "Buying and Selling Real Porperty in New Amsterdam" > Hi all, > > See: > http://www.nnp.org/nni/Publications/zwieten.pdf > > I'm not sure this answers Steve's original question, but it does > give a good background with many references. > > And it does mention paying in installments. I think Steve > is right that that 25 guilders mentioned is only the last payment > and Adam had paid more earlier. > > Regards, > Howard > hswain@ix.netcom.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message