Under the Dutch 29 



Jacob Jans Stoll. After passing through various hands, it 

 came into possession of Samuel Edsall about 1668- 1670, who 

 sold it in 1670 to Richard and Lewis Morris, merchants of 

 Barbados. Captain Richard Morris was already located in 

 New York and bought the land and took possession of it in 

 behalf of his brother, Colonel Lewis Morris, as well as for 

 himself. 



The bounds of "Brouncksland" 1 are hard to determine. 

 The northern line probably did not extend beyond 150th 

 Street. To the east, the land extended to Bungay Creek; 

 and to the south, to the Harlem River and Bronx Kills. The 

 site of Bronk's house became that of Colonel Lewis Morris, 

 and later, of the manor-house. 



The next settler within the Borough was Mrs. Anne Hutchin- 

 son, who had come from England to Boston in 1634. Here 

 her peculiar religious notions and outspoken criticisms ren- 

 dered her obnoxious to the theocratic authorities of that colony 

 so that she was banished from it shortly after Roger Williams 

 had suffered a like fate from Salem. She went to Williams's 

 new settlement at Rhode Island and founded Portsmouth and 

 Newport ; but not finding Rhode Island to her liking, she again 

 migrated with her husband, family, and belongings to the 

 Dutch colony of New Netherland, and settled, in 1643, in 

 what is known as Pelham Neck. The Dutch called the neck 

 after her, "Annes Hoeck, " or Ann's Neck; the stream near 

 which her house stood was called Hutchinson's River, a name 

 that it still bears. In the Indian war which broke out again 

 after the signing of the treaty at Bronk's house, the savages 

 made a descent upon her farm and wiped it out of existence, 

 at the same time killing her and all her family and servants 



1 Also spelled Broncksland, Brunksland, Bronksland, Bruksland, and 

 several other ways in ancient records and histories. 



