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Auction: 320 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and the Forest Park Collection
Lot: 1869

Rombout Patent; Gulian Verplanck (1637-1684), prominent NY merchant; Thomas Dongan, Second Earl of Limerick (1634-1715), Lt. Governor of the Province of New York. Official Oct. 15, 1741 secretarial copy of Thomas Dongan's Grant of the "Rombout Patent". Five and three-quarter pages, folio. Certified by George Joseph Moore, Deputy Secretary of the Province of New York, and signed at the end by him "Geo Jos Moore Depty Secry". In 1682, a Flanders-born Huguenot merchant from New York, Francis Rombout and Gulian Verplanck, son of Abraham Isaac Verplanck -- patriarch and founder of the NY Verplanck family, jointly filed petitions for a land grant and permission to but a fertile tract of land from the Wappinger Indians on the east bank of the Hudson, extending from Fishkill almost to Poughkeepsie. Rombout, it is said bargained for "all the land he could see," then craftily climbed to the top of what is now called Mount Beacon to increase his view. In 1683, Rombout, Verplanck and partner Stephanus Van Cortlandt bought some 85,000 acres for roughly $1,200 in goods. The purchase was licensed by Lt. Governor Dongan and the grant confirmed in 1685 after the accession of James II - and would come to be known as the "Rombout Patent". Fine.

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