^SG HISTORY Or : -TY OF WESTCHESTER. 



fire. In order to be able to enjoy freedom of conscience according to 

 the Dutch reformation, which he certainly missed in New England, he 

 betook himself under the protection of the Dutch; and an absolute 

 patent, with privileges for a colony, was granted and conferred on him by 

 the Director General." This patent consisted of thirteen thousand three 

 hundred and thirty-two acres of the lands called Mispath, the present 

 Newtown on L. I.) It was conferred upon him and his associates, on the 

 28th of March, i642." a He had reinforced himself now in one year with 

 some families ; but in consequence of the breaking out of the war, they 

 were all driven from their lands with loss of some people, and the destruc- 

 tion of much cattle, losing for the most part all their houses and whatever 

 they possessed. After they had remained a while, and consumed more 

 than they could collect, they came to the Manhattans, where all the 

 refugees resorted at that time, and Master Doughty was minister there." 

 The Rev. Franciscus Doughty was a member of the ancient and honor- 

 able family of the Doughtys or Douteys of Easher Surrey, and Boston, 

 Lincolnshire, England, descended from an English Saxon house of 

 Dohteg, before the Conquest, A. D. 1066. 



On the 15th May, 1677, Elias Doughty, (son of the above) propietor 

 of the land heretofore belonging to the Younckers van der JDonck, near 

 Eastchester, was invested in the sole ownership by Hugh O'Neale and 

 Mary his wife. 



The descendants of Elias Doughty are still numerous in the county 

 of Westchester. Of this family was Francis Doughty of Rye, in 1756, 

 father of John Doughty, Esq., and grand-father of the Hon. John 

 Doughty. The son of the latter is the present General George S. 

 Doughty, of West Farms. From Elias Doughty, the old or loiuer Yon- 

 kers passed to William Boltz or Betts, George Tippetts, and Joseph 

 Hadley. "The name of the Jonckers, (says the Hon. Egbert Benson), 

 the proprietor of the creek, now Saw Mill creek, van der Kee ; and it is 

 still to be collected from the documents, as not being improbable that 

 the lands granted to Van der Donck, and perhaps including the island 

 of the Indian name of Papuriminon, the southern shore at Kings 



a O'Callaghan's Hist. N. N. Appendix, 420. 



b Van der Donck's Vertooghe van N. N. " In 1042 a band of religionists, led on by the Rev 

 Mr. iimighty, Richd Smith, and others, who had followed the Pilgrims from Old England to 



New England, were compelled to wsthdraw from the latter country by the persecution they. 

 received there, and after making formal application to the authorities ol flew Neatherlaud, they 

 had a grant of land assigned them, endowed with the usual privileges of free Manors, such as 

 a free exercise of their religion, powers to plant towns, build churches, nominate magistrates, 

 and administer civil and criminal jurisdiction.'' — (O. F. Hoffman.) 



c A. D. 1064, one George Tippett, being accused and found guilty of nogg stealing, the 

 Court doth adjudge the delinquent shall pay as a fine, to his maJeBtle's use, the Bnm ot £14, or 

 receive ye corporal punishment of thirtv-one stripes, at the common whipping-post, before 

 ye State house of thii city, upon ye breaking up of this Court, &c— Assize Itec. Alb. 311. 



