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We return now to Colen Donck. Some time before 1666, 

 the widow of Adrien Van der Donck married Hugh O'Neale 

 of Patuxent, Maryland, and went there to live. On Septem- 

 ber 21, 1666, 



"came Hugh O'Neale and Mary his wife (who in right of 

 her former husband laid claime to a cert n parcele of land 

 upon the Maine not farre from Westchester, commonly called 

 the Younckers land), who bro't severall Indyans before 

 the gov r to acknowledge the purchase of said lands by van 

 der Donck commonly called ye Youncker. . . . Tackarack, 

 . . . Claes, . . . received satisfact" of Van Der Donck. All 

 the rest of the Indyans present being seven or eight acknow- 

 ledged to have rec d full satisfaction. " 



The proof of possession by Indian title being thus before 

 Governor Nicolls, he issued to Mary and Hugh O'Neale as 

 joint patentees, under date of October 8, 1666, a confirmatory 

 grant of Nepperhaem. As the descriptions of the bounds of 

 the grant are the same in the Indians' acknowledgment, in 

 the confirmatory patent and in the original Dutch grant of 

 1646, we must conclude that the property was intact as Van 

 der Donck bought it and as he left it at his death. On October 

 thirtieth, of the same year, the two patentees transferred 

 their right, title, and interest in the grant to Elias Doughty 

 of Long Island, a brother of Mrs. O'Neale, and then returned 

 to Maryland. 



Doughty began to sell the land in parcels to different pur- 

 chasers in fee. The first sale was made March 1, 1667, to 

 Jan Arcer, or John Archer, of eighty acres of upland and thirty 

 acres of meadow, "betwixt Broncx river & ye watering place 

 at ye end of ye Island of Manhattans. " June 7, 1668, Doughty 

 sold 320 acres to John Heddy, or Hadden, — this is now a part 

 of Van Cortlandt Park. On July 6, 1668, Doughty sold to 



