Philipse Patent
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title:
Philipse Patent
text:
The Philipse Patent was a British royal patent for a large tract of land on the east bank of the Hudson River about 50 miles north of New York City. It was purchased in 1697 by Adolphus Philipse, a wealthy landowner of Dutch descent in the Province of New York, and in time became today's Putnam County. Philipse bought the roughly 250 sq mi (650 km2) tract from two Dutch traders who had purchased it from "Wiccopee chiefs" of the Wappinger native American people. The parcel received a land patent
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description:
British royal patent for land on the Hudson River
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipse_Patent
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2024-04-12T04:00:59Z
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