On July 20, 1649 lots 16 and 17 on De Heere Wegh were granted to Nicolas William Stuyvesant and Balta-Lazar Stuyvesant respectively.
They measured 7 1/2 Rhenish Rods by 20 King's Rods.
Oh what JOY...
A fun puzzle and an education to boot.
There are a lot of hits in Google books for Rhenish rods
Imagine the chaos when it was assumed English rods were used instead of the Dutch King's rods.
Holy Cow, post: 380803, member: 50 wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_units_of_measurement#Length
..or 2.149255 smoots
Scott Zelenak, post: 380796, member: 327 wrote: On July 20, 1649 lots 16 and 17 on De Heere Wegh were granted to Nicolas William Stuyvesant and Balta-Lazar Stuyvesant respectively.
They measured 7 1/2 Rhenish Rods by 20 King's Rods.Oh what JOY...
A fun puzzle and an education to boot.
Good luck Bud. Nothing like a challenge that takes one back a few centuries.
The Kings Rod (Dutch) and the Phrenish Rod seems to have a similar equivalents. Whoever drew this representation may not have been aware of that.
The lot in the upper left corner of the sketch has similar annotation that is found here on old French plats.
12 rod 8' 4" 5''' The ''' represent a French ligne which is 1/8" so 5''' = 5/8"
There are area here that were surveyed with French units. The French foot was a tad longer than the English foot. So some streets were wider. But surveyors over time, completely and erroneously ignored the French foot and used the Englush foot. All this was because they did not bother to research historical and original surveys. A lot of streets that were meant to be 53.3' became 50'.
But there were a small group of land surveyors who were aware of the French Pied relation to the English foot.
They resurveyed correctly but most now have disappeared from the practice.
