410 The Story of The Bronx 



ment by Throgmorton, Cornell, and their companions, an 

 account has already been given in Chapter II. 



After the Indian war of Kieft's administration, such part of 

 the land as had not been occupied by the colonists came into 

 the possession of Augustine Hermans. It is probable that 

 those colonists who escaped the Indian massacre returned to 

 the neck after that unhappy affair and once more occupied and 

 cultivated their lands. Two of these were named Spicer and 

 Brockett, who gave their names to two necks on the south side 

 of the peninsula. On the southwest side of Spicer's Neck, 

 the Siwanoy Indians had one of their most important places 

 of sepulture, and hence the neck was frequently called "Burial 

 Point." On January 7, 1667, Colonel Nicolls granted to 

 Roger Townsend "a certain parcel of land ... at ye south- 

 east end of Throgmorton's neck, commonly called New Found 

 Passage, containing fifteen acres, as also a small neck thereto 

 adjoining commonly called Horseneck, being about the same 

 quantity of land, which is not in occupation." 



On January 12, 1686, Spicer's and Brockett's necks were 

 patented to Thomas Hunt of Westchester by Governor Don- 

 gan under the title of Grove Farm. The yearly quit-rent was 

 a bushel of good winter wheat, to be paid "on or before the 

 five and twentieth day of March, at the city of New York." 

 That Hunt had received a previous confirmation is evident 

 from his will of 1694, in which he "bequeathes to my 

 grandson Josiah Hunt, eldest son of my son Josiah Hunt, 

 the Grove Farm, to him and to his heirs male, which was 

 patented to me by Governor Nicolls 4th December, 1667, and 

 further entails the same to the said Josiah and his heirs male 

 lawfully begotten from generation to generation." It may be 

 mentioned, in passing, that all entails in the State of New 

 York were broken by an Act of the Legislature of 1825. 



