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I have been unable to trace the Patroon's descendants. That he left children has been clearly shown in the letter dispatched by the Fox, A. D. 1664. On the 26th August, 1655, Governor Stuyvesant grants a piece of land lying on the north side of Manhattans called Muscoota,b to one Cornelis van der Donck ,
a Book of Pat. Alb.
b Muscoota, a meadow or plain of natural grass. The same word is applied to the Haarlem river.
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This purchase lay directly opposite to Yonckers.« A. D. 1653, Gysbert van der Donck occurs, a defendant in a suit brought by Gulyan Jansen, a carpenter, for the recovery of damages on the loss of clothes sustained by plaintiff, " which through the fault of defendant's father, then his master, had been stolen by the In- dians."b 1653, Madame Anna van der Donck occurs as defen- dant in a suit, (her son Huybert van der Donck. )c
Upon the 30th of October, 1666, Elias Doughty purchased lands in this town of Hugh O'Neal and Mary his wife. The father of Elias was the Rev. Franciscus Doughty. "This min- ister, Franciscus Doughty, (says his son-in-law, Van der Donck,) in the time of the first troubles in England, came over in order to escape from them to New England, and found himself (to use a homely phrase,) out of the frying-pan in the fire. In order to be able to enjoy freedom of conscience according to the Dutch reformation, which he certainly missed in New England, he betook himself under the protection of the Dutch, and an ab- solute patent with privileges for a colony was granted and con- ferred on him by the Director General." This patent consisted of thirteen thousand three hundred and thirty-two acres of the lands called Mispath, (the present Newtown on L. I.) It was conferred upon him and his associates, 28th March, 1642."d He had re- inforced himself now in one year with some families, but in con- sequence of the breaking out of the war, they were all driven from their lands with loss of some people, and the destruction of much cattle, losing for the most part all their houses and what- ever they possessed. After they had remained awhile, and con- sumed more than they could collect, they came to the Manhat- tans, where all the refugees resorted at the time, and Master Doughty was minister there.e The Rev. Franciscus Doughty was a member of the ancient and honorable family of the Doughtys or Donteys of Easher Surrey, and Boston, Lincoln-
& Alb. Rec. xxV.
b Dutch Rec. City Clerk's Office, N. Y. 160.
c Ibid. 279.
a O'Callaghan's Hist. N. N. Appendix, 426.
· Van der Donck's Vertooghe van N. N.
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shire, England, descended from an English Saxon house of Dohteg, before the conquest, A. D. 1066.a
15th May, 1677, Elias Doughty, (son of the above) proprietor of the land heretofore belonging to the Younckers van der Donck, near Eastchester, was invested in the sole ownership by Hugh O'Neale and Mary his wife.
The descendants of Elias Doughty are still numerous in the county of Westchester. Of this family was Francis Doughty of Rye, in 1756, father of Jolin Doughty, Esq., and grandfather of the Hon. John Doughty. The son of the latter is the present General George S. Doughty of West Farms. From Elias Doughty, the old or lower Yonkers passed to William Boltz or Betts, George Tippetts,b and Joseph Hadley. "The name of the Jonckers, (says the Hon. Egbert Benson,) the proprietor of the creek, now Saw Mill creek, van der Kee ; and it is still to be collected from the documents, as not being improbable that the lands granted to Van der Donck and perhaps including the island of the Indian name of Papuriminon, the southern shore at Kingsbridge were the neighborhood called the LOWER YONCK- ERS, as to be distinguished from the other Yonckers, the lands of Van der Kee on the Saw Mill creek.e This distinction be- tween the lower Yonckers and the upper, or as it was sometimes called the little and the old Yonckers clearly points to two dif- ferent proprietors. The first may have been Van der Kee, as Mr. Benson suggests, (although there is nothing in the shape of evidence to support it,) and the second Adriaen van der Donck, the Jonkheer or " young gentleman."
22nd of February, 1670, Joseph Hadley sold fifty acres called GEORGES POINT to Matthias Buckhout, who subsequently con- veyed the same, 22d January, 1694, to Frederick Philipse.
"Upon the 10th of October, in the eleventh year of the reign
a Guillam's Display of Heraldry.
b A. D. 1664, one George Tippett being accused and found guilty of hogg steal- ing, the court doth adjudge the delinquent shall pay as a fine to his majestie's use the sum of £14, or receive ye corporal punishment of thirty one stripes, at the common whipping post, before ye state house of this city, upon yc breaking up of this court, &c. Assize Rec. Alb. 311.
€ Benson's Mem. of N. Y. 56.
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of our Sovereign Lord, William the Third, by the grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord Christ, 1699, occurs the following indenture :
Between Frederick Felipse of the city of New York, merchant, of the one part, &c., and Jacobus van Cortlandt of the same city, merchant, of the other part, witnesseth that the said Frederick Felipse, as well for and in considera- tion of a certain sum of good and lawful money to him in hand paid, before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, by the said Jacobus van Cort- landt, &c., &c., hath given, granted, bargained, and sold, conveyed, &c., unto the said Jacobus van Cortlandt, his heirs and assignees for ever, all that fifty acres of land with the appurtenances lying within the limits and bounds of the Yonckers plantation in the county of Westchester, known by the name of Georges Point, butted and bounded. &c., &c. Also one acre and a half of meadow with the appurtenances, &c., together with twenty-five acres more of upland, with their appartenances, and the reversion and reversions and all the estate, right, title, claim and demand whatsoever, of him the said Frede- rick Felipse, of, in, or into the said premises, to have and to hold the several parcels of land and meadow to the said Jacobus van Cortlandt, &c., his heirs and assignees forever. In testimony whereof the parties to these presents have set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
This property is still vested in a descendant of Jacobus van Cortlandt.
13th August, 1701, we find the Indians confirming the Van Cortlandts in their purchase.
"To all Christian people and others to whom these presents shall come, Clause Dewilt, Karacapacomont and her son Nemerau sendeth greeting : Know yee, that wee, the said Clause Dewilt, Karacapacomont, and Nemerau, native Indians and former proprietors of a certain tract of land lying in the county of Westchester in the province of New York in America, commonly called and known by the name of the old Younckers, now in possession of Jacobus van Cortlandt of the city of New York, merchant, and the heirs of the Betts and Tippetts, for and in consideration of two fathoma of duffils and one pound two shillings and sixpence current money of New York in hand paid unto us by the said Jacobus van Cortlandt, have remised, released, and forever quit claimed unto the said Jacobus van Cortlandt, and to the heirs of the Betts and Tippets, and to their heirs and assigns forever, all our right, title, and interest, which we ever had, now have, or hereafter may have or
& A Dutch fathom contained six feet English ..
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claim to the said tract of land called the old Younekers, and to every part and parcel thereof, and do hereby acknowledge the above consideration to be in full of all dues and demands whatsoever, for the said traet of land and pre- mises, to have and to hold the said tract of land called the old Younckers, to the said Jacobus van Cortlandt and the heirs of the Betts and Tippetts, their heires and assignees forever, witness our hands and seals the 13th of August, 1701.ª
Sealed and delivered in the presence
Claass Dewilt,
of
Gualter du Bois,
Karacapacomont,
William Sharpes,
Nemerau.
The Little Yonkers in contradistinction from the Old, above mentioned, appears to have been included in the sale to Elias Doughty of Flushing, 30 October, 1666, who granted it 29th November, 1672, to Thomas Delaval, Frederick Philipse and Thomas Lewis, mariner. Thomas Delaval,b by a codicil of his last will, bearing date June 10th, 1682, did devise unto John, his only son, all his interest in a full third part.
Feb. 19, 1684-5, Thomas Dongan, governor of New York, by a patent did ratify and confirm unto John Delaval, Frederick Philipse and Geertje Lewis, relict of Thomas Lewis, the afore- said tract.
27 Angust, 1685, John Delaval sold his third part in the same to Frederick Philipse, as also Geertje, wife of Thomas Lewis, Lodowick Lewis, Barent Lewis, Leonard Lewis, Katherine Lewis and Thomas Lewis, by deed conveyed each their interest in third part to Frederick Philipse, 12th June, 1686.c
On the 17th day of April, 1685, occurs the following agree- ment between Frederick Philipse, merchant, of New York, and John Pell, Esq., of Aunhoock's neck, in the county of Westches- ter. " It was mutually agreed and consented unto by us under- written, Frederick Philipse, merchant of the city of New York, and John Pell, Esq., of Annhoock's neck, that the Broux's river shall be the division between both their lands, and that, if either the said Frederick Philipse or the said John Pell, shall at any
e Van Cortlandt papers.
b This individual was for many years alderman, and mayor of New York city in 1678.
See Royal Charter of Philipsborough.
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time see cause to make any small dam across the said river, it shall be lawful for either party to fix the end of their dam of each other side, without lett or molestation."a
FREDERICK PHILIPSE. JOHN PELL.
Frederick Philipse being now vested in the fee simple, the whole territory was by royal charter, erected into the lordship and manor of Philipsborough, to be holden of the king, in free and common soccage, its lord yielding, rendering, and paying therefor, yearly and every year, on the feast day of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the fort in New York, the annual rent of £4 12s.
THE ROYAL CHARTER.
William and Mary, by the grace of God, &c., king and queen of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defenders of the faith, &c., to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : whereas, the Honorable Richard Nicolls, Esq., late governor of our Province of New York, &c., by a certain deed or patent, sealed with the seal of our said Province, bearing date the 8th day of Oct., in the year of our Lord, 1666, pursuant to the authority in him residing, did give and grant unto Hugh O'Neale and Mary his wife, their heirs and as- signs, all that tract of land upon the main, bounded to the north by a rivulet called by the Indians, Meccackassin, so running southward to Nepperhan, from thence to the kill Shorackkapock and to Paparinnomo, which is the southermost bounds, then to go across the country, eastward by that which is commonly known by the name of Bronx's river, together with all the woods, marshes, meadows, pastures, waters, lakes, creeks, rivulets, fishing, hunting and fowling, and all other profits, commodities and emoluments to said tract of land belonging, with their and every of their appurtenance, to have and to hold unto the said Hugh O'Neale and Mary his wife, their heirs and assigns forever, as by the said deed or patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear, and whereas, the said Hugh O'Neal and Mary his wife, by their certain deed or writ, dated 30th day of Oct., in said year of our Lord, 1666, did sell, alien, assign and set over all and sin- gular their right and title and interest of in and to the aforenamed tract of land and premises, unto Elias Doughty of Flushing, in the Co. of York, on Long Island, unto the said Elias Doughty, his heirs and assigns forever, as by the said deed or writing, relation being thereunto had, as may more fully and at large appear, and whereas, the said Elias Doughty by his certain deed er
* Co. Rer. Tib. A. 62.
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writing, bearing date 29 day of Nov., in the year of our Lord 1672, for the consideration therein expressed and mentioned, did assign and set over, all and singular his right and title and interest, of, in and to the aforementioned tract of land and premises unto Thomas Deleval, Esq., Frederick Philips and Thomas Lewis, mariner, to hold to them, their heirs and assigns forever, as by the said deed or writing relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear ; and whereas, the said Thomas Deleval, in and by a certain codicil annexed unto his last will and testament in writing, bearing date the 10 day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1682, amongst other things did devise unto John Deleval his only son, all that his interest in the afore- mentioned land and premises, his one full, equal and certain third thereof, as by the said codicil in writing, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear ; and, whereas, the Hon. Col. Thomas Dongan, late gov. of our said province &c., and as by a certain deed or patent, sealed with the seal of our said province, &c., and bearing date the 19th of Feb., in the year of our Lord, 1684-5, pursuant to the authority in him then residing, for the consideration therein expressed, did further grant, ratify and confirm, unto the said Thomas Deleval, Frederick Philips, Geertje Lewis, relict of the said Thomas Lewis, due their heirs and assigns, all the aforesaid tract and parcel of land beginning at a small rivulet known and called by the Indians, Mak- akassin, from thence into the woods due east by a great rock stone and a lyne of marked trees, to Bronx's river, and thence by said river, four miles and something more, to a marked white oak tree upon the middle of a great ledge of rocks, which is the north-east corner of the land of Francis French & Co., in the mile square formerly sold out of the aforesaid patent, then by the said land, west, 35 deg. northerly, 1 mile or 80 chains from thence east 35 deg. southerly to Bronx's river to a marked tree, which is the south-east corner of the mile square, excepted out of the said patent, from thence by Bronx's, his river, 89 chains to a marked tree, which is the north-east corner of Wm. Betts and George Tippets, and then by a certain lyne of marked trees due west 30 chains to the marked tree or south-east corner of the purchase of John Heddy, then due N. 34 chains, from thence due west by their purchase, 90 chains to the north-west corner of the 300 acres, then due south 16 chains to the north-west corner of the 20 acres purchased of John Heddy, thence and by the said land west 12 chains to the north-west corner, then by the side of the kill, south 18 chains to the land of Wm. Betts and George Tippetts, from thence by a lyne of marked trees due west 79 chains, to a white oak tree standing on the bank of Hudson's river, to the south of Dog-wood brook 16 chains and } and then northerly by the Hudson's river to Nepperha, which is near the Yonkers mills, and so continue by Hudson's river to the first men- tioned small rivulet, Maccakassin, the whole being bounded to the north with a lyne of marked trees and a great rock stone, to the cast by Bronx's river and the land of Francis French and Co., to the south by the land of Wm. Betts, George Tippets and Thomas Heddy, to the west by Hudson's
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river, containing in all, 7,703 acres, together with all and singular the mes- suages, tenements, buildings, barns, stables, orchards, gardens, pastures, meadows, mills, mill-dams, runs, streams, ponds, rivers, brooks, woods, under- woods, trees, timber, fencing, fishing, fowling, hunting, hawking, liberties, pri- vileges, hereditaments and improvements whatsoever, belonging or in any way appertaining, to have and to hold all the aforementioned tract and parcel of land, with all and singular the aforementioned premises, unto the said John Deleval, Frederick Philips, Geertje Lewis, their heirs and assigns forever, as by the said deed or patent registered in our secretary's office of our province of New York aforesaid, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear ; and, whereas the said Thomas Deleval, by a certain deed of indenture, sealed with the seal, and bearing date the 27th day of Angust, in the year of our Lord, 1685, did, for the consideration therein mentioned, grant, bargain and sell, all that one full third part of all and singular the said tract of land, afore recited, described and bounded within the limits aforesaid unto him the said Frederick Philips one of the parties aforesaid, together with all that one full and equal third part of all and singular the houses out-houses, barns, stables, mills, mill-dams, buildings, fences and edi- fices thereon erected and built, and likewise one full third part of all and singular the waters, water-courses, streams, woods, underwoods, fishing, fowling, hawking, hunting, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same be- longing, or in any way appertaining, to have and to hold unto the said Fred- erick Philipse, his heirs and assigns forever, as by the said deed or indenture, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear ; and where- as, the said Geertje Lewis, executrix of the last will and testament of Thomas Lewis, late of New York, mariner, her late husband, deceased, and Lodivick Lewis, Barrent Lewis, Leonard Lewis, Katharine Lewis and Thomas Lewis the children and co-heirs of said Thomas Lewis and Geertje his wife, by a certain deed of indenture, sealed with the seal bearing date the 12 day of June, in the year of our Lord 1686, did, for the consideration therein mentioned, grant, bargain and sell, all that the full one-third part of all and singular the said tract of land afore- recited, described and bounded with the limits aforesaid, unto him, the said Frederick Philips, one of the parties aforesaid, together with all that one full and equal third part of all and singular the houses, out-houses, barns, stables, mills, mill-dams, buildings, fences and edifices thereon erected and built, and likewise one full third part of all and singular the water, water-courses, streams, woods, underwoods, fishing, fowling, hunting, hawking, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining, to have and to hold unto the said Frederick Philips. his heirs and assigns forever, as by the said deed or indenture, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear, and whereas, the Hon. Sir Edmund Andross, late go- vernor of our said province of New York, &e., by a certain writing or pat- ent, sealed with the seal of our said province, bearing date the first day of April, in the year of our Lord, 1680, pursuant to the authority in him then
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residing, did give and grant unto the said Frederick Philips, a certain tract or parcel of land, beginning at a creek or river called by the Indians, Pocan- teco or Wackandeco, with power thereon to set a mill or mills, with a due portion of land on each side, adjoining unto the said river, lying within the bounds of the Indians land at Wickers creek, on the east side of the Hud- sun river, which said Indian land, was by the said Frederick Philips pur- chased from the said native Indian proprietors thereof, by the licence and ap- probation of the said Sir Edmund Andross and the said Indian proprietors did, in the presence of Sir Edmund Andross aforesaid, acknowledge to have re- ceived full satisfaction of him the said Frederick Philips for the said land ad- joining, to each syde of the creek or river aforesaid, which said land is situate, lying and being on each side of the said creek or river, north and south 1600 treads or steps which at 12 ft to the rod, makes 400 rod and runs up into the country so far as the said creek or river goeth, with this proviso or restriction that if the creek or river called by the Indians, Nippiorha, and by the charters Yonkers creek or kill shall come within the space of land of 400 rods on the south side of the aforenamed creek or river, that shall extend no farther than the said creek or river of Nippiroha, but the rest to be so far up into the country on each side of the said creek or river called Pocanteco as it runs, being about north-east, to have and to hold all the aforesaid recited tract or parcel of land unto him the said Frederick Philips, his heirs and assigns forever, as by the said grant or patent registered in our secretary's office of our province of New York, &c., aforesaid, relation being thereunto had may more fully and at large appear, and whereas the Honorable Thomas Dongan late gov. of our province of New York, &c., aforesaid, by virtue of the power in him then residing hath, by another grant or patent sealed with the scal of our said pro- vince of New York, and registered in our secretary's office of our province aforesaid, bearing date 23d of September, in the year of our Lord 1684, given granted, ratified, and confirmed, unto said Frederick Philips, his heirs and assigns, several tracts and parcels of land with the limits and bounds hereafter mentioned, that were according to the usage, custom, and laws of our said province purchased by the said Frederick Philips from the native Indians and proprietors, in manner and form following, (that is to say,) all those certain parcels and pieces of land lying about the Wigquaskeek that was on the 24th day of October, in the year of our Lord, 1680, purchased by the said Freder- ick Philips of the Indian Goharins, brother of Weskora, sachem of Wigquas- keek, for himself and by the full order of Goharius, which certain parcel or parcels of land are lying about Wigquaskeek to the north syde and tending from the land of the aforesaid Frederick Philips running along the North river to the north of the small creek called by the Indians Sepackena creek, as far as it goeth into the woods, and coming to the end of the aforesaid creek, then shall the aforesaid pieces or parcels of land have their lyne north-east, or if the creek Pocanteco Wackandeco upon which at present stands the mills of the said Frederick Philips, shall run upon a north-east lyne, then the said land shall run along the said creek Pocanteco, or Weghkandeco, into the
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woods as the said creek or kill shall go, and there shall be the end or utmost bounds of the said certain pieces of land, as by the said writing or Indian deed, relation being thereunto had may more fully and at large appear, as likewise another tract or parcel of land on the east side of Hudson's river that was by said Frederick Philips purchased of the Indians Goharius, Cobus, and Tog- quanduck, on the 23d day of April, in the year of our Lord, 1681, which tract or parcel of land being situate on the east side of the North or Hudson's river, beginning at the south side of a creek called Bissigktick, and so ranging along the said river northerly to the aforesaid land of the aforesaid Frederick Phil- ips, and then alongst the said land north-east and by east untill it comes to and meets with the creek called Nippiorha, if the said creek shall fall within that lyne, otherwise to extend no further than the head of the creek or kill called Potanteco, or Puegkanteko, and southerly alongst the said river Neppiorha if the same shall fall within the said line as aforesaid, or else in a direct lyne from the head of the said creek or kill called Pocanteco Puegkandico, untill it comes opposite to the said first mentioned creek called Bissightick, and from thence westwardly to the head of the said creek and alongst the same to the North or Hudson's river, being the first station, as by the said writing or deed, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear, as also another certain tract or parcel of land on the east syde of the said Hud- son's river that was by the said Frederick Philips purchased of the native Indians Armaghqueer, Seapham alias Thapham, on the 8th day of April, in the year of our Lord 1682, which certain tract or parcel of land is situate, lying, and being on the east side of the North or Hudson's river to the south of the land formerly bought by the said Frederick Philips of the said Indians, beginning at the south side of a creek called Bissightick, and so ranging along the said river southerly to a creek or fall called by the Indians Weghquegsik, and by the Christians Lawrences's plantation, and from the month of the said creek or fall upon a due east course to a creek called by the Indians Nippiorha, and by the Christians the Yonkers kill, and from thence alongst the west side of the said creek or kill as the same runs to the before mentioned land, for- merly bought by the said Frederick Philips of the sayd Indians, and so along that land to the first station, as by the said writing or Indian deed, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear, as also another tract or parcel of land on the east side of Hudson's river that was by the said Frederick Philips purchased of the native Indians Warramanhack, Espara- mngh, Anhock, &c., on the 6th day of September, in the year of our Lord, 1682, which certain tract or parcel of land is situated, lying, and being on the west side of the North or Hudson's river, beginning at the north side of the land belonging to the Yonkers kill, Nipperha, at a great rock called by the Indians Meghkeckassin, or the great stone, (as called by the Christians,) from thence ranging into the woods eastwardly to a creek called by the Indians Nipperha aforesaid, and from thence along said creek northerly till you come to the eastward of the head of a creek called by the Indians Wegquiskeek,
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