Under the Lord Proprietor, 1664-1685 65 



in 167 1, and confirmed by a later Indian deed of May 10, 1676, 

 to "Jackeline Turnier, widow, and Daniel Turnier, the sonne 

 of Daniel Turnier, late of New Harlem, deceased," and by 

 patent of Governor Nicolls of the date of June 15, 1668. 

 The land lay between the Maenippis Kill, or Cromwell's 

 Creek, and the Harlem River, and comprised the high land 

 which is known as Devoe's Point, named after the Devoes, 

 who were descendants of Turneur's daughter. Its lower end 

 is at Central Bridge. The Indians called the land Nuasin 

 and the stream, Mentipathe. In an Indian deed to Colonel 

 Lewis Morris under date of February 7, 1684/5, there occur 

 these words: "Nuasin where formerly lived a Frenchman 

 named Marcus Dissisway." The name Dissisway occurs 

 also in the annals of Harlem. "Crabbe Island" is men- 

 tioned in both the Turneur and Morris grants as the starting- 

 point of their bounds. 



In addition to this estate on the mainland of Westchester 

 County, Colonel Lewis Morris bought thirty-five hundred 

 acres in East Jersey, which he named Tintern and Monmouth, 

 the first from his ancestral estate in Wales, the latter from the 

 county in which it was situated. Morristown in New Jersey 

 was named after the Morris family. 



On August 9, 1673, England and Holland then being at 

 war, New York was surrendered to a Dutch squadron which 

 had appeared off New York on the twenty-ninth of July. 

 The Dutch renamed the city New Orange and vigorously 

 asserted their claim to the entire province. They held posses- 

 sion till February 9, 1674, when, by the Treaty of London, it 

 was returned to the English ; though the actual surrender of 

 the province did not take place until the following November. 

 The Crown thus became possessed of the province, and the 

 Crown lawyers maintained that the Duke of York had, in 



