Patent of Francisco for land on Manhattan Island

Title: Patent of Francisco for land on Manhattan Island
Subject: Slavery; New York (State)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Description: In New Amsterdam, free African people could own land.
Take for example this document depicting a sale of Manhattan Land from Willem Kieft to a man named Willem Kieft. Was there a particular reason for why Francisco might have bought land near another African person in a settlement where there were so few?

"We, Willem Kieft, etc... have given and granted to Francisco Negro a certain piece of land located on the island of Manhattan bounded on the north by Gerrit Hendricksz and on the south by Antony Congo, Negro; its length along the public road is 200 paces, and its breadth 335 paces, with the express conditions etc...

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 25 March 1647."

Translation: Gehring, C.
Creator: Kieft, Willem
Date: 1647-03-25
Source: Willem Kief, “untitled, manuscript, March 25, 1647;
New York State Archives, http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/51297.
Rights: Public Domain
Type: manuscript
Format: .PNG
Language: Dutch
Coverage: Colonization, Settlement, and Communities (1607–1763)