580 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



fore his Excellency. Richard Nicoll, the first English governor of N_._- 

 York. A.L). 1666, when it was distinctly declared, — "That the Indian 

 proprietor's name, who was chief of them, was Taekarew, living at the 

 Navisans, (the highlands of the Nevisink, N. J.), who acknowledged ye 

 purchase as before described, and that he had received satisfaction for 

 it. Claes, ye Indian, having interest in a part, acknowledged to have 

 sold and received satisfaction of Van der Donck. All the rest of ye 

 Indians, being seven or eight, acknowledged to have received full satis- 

 faction" likewise." 



The Jonge Heer being now a member of the privileged order of Pat- 

 roons, 6 enjoyed all the feudal appendages attached thereto, such as 

 power to erect a church or churches; to administer jurisdiction, to 

 decide civil suits, to impose fines, to pronounce the first sentence, finally 

 to exercise all rights belonging to the jurisdiction, of Colen Donck to- 

 gether with the right of hunting, fowling, fishing and trading according 

 to immunities granted in the same. Soon after the settlement of 

 our Patroon at Colen Donck, there arose a controversy between the 

 government of the Colony of New Netherlands and several of the 

 colonists ; among the most forward of the latter was Adriaen Van der 

 Donck. who with others united in a strong remonstrance to the States 

 General of Holland, complaining of the power exercised by the Dutch 

 West India Company especially during the administrations of Kieft and 

 Stuwesant. This remonstrance was afterwards printed at the Hague, 

 A.D. 1650, and formed a small vol. (quarto) of fifty pages entitled 

 •' Vertoogh c Van Nieuw Nederlandt. weghens de Ghelegenhetyd,Vrucht- 

 baerheydt, en soberen Staet desselfs. In s' Graven Hage, 1650, (An 

 Exposition of the New Netherlands, in respect to the situation, fertility, 

 and wretched condition of the country. At the Hague, 1650.) This 

 attempt to shake the authority of the Dutch West India Company, 

 proved abortive, and only served to re-act unfavorably upon the dis- 

 affected; 19 March. 1650, occurs a contract between the Dutch West 

 India Company, Van der Donck and others, for the transportation of 

 two hundred persons to New Netherlands. rf November 29, 1650, Cor- 

 nelis Van Tienhoven, Secretary of the New Netherlands, delivered to 

 the States General a short statement or answer upon certain points con- 

 tained in the memorial of Van der Donck and others to their High 

 Mightnesses.' 



a Albany Rec. Court of Assize Deeds, vol. iii. p. 42. 



6 A l from the Latin Patronus like the French Seignior. 



c Vertoogh sometimes means remonstrance. 



d Hoi. Doc. xvi, 191. 



e Holl. Doc. No. lviii. 360. 



