D, 16(34, when it was distinctly declared, " That the Indian proprietor's name, who was chief of them, was Tackareia, living at the Navisans, (the highlands of the Nevisink, N, J.) who acknowledged ye purchase as before described, and that he had recived 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 satisfactionc likewise.

The Jonge Heer being now a member of the privileged order

« N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll. ii. sec i. 27. <» O'Callaghaii's Hist, N. N. 382.

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of PatroonSji 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 together 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 Co. especially during the administrations of Kieft and Stuyvesant. This remonstrance was afterwards printed at the Hague A. D. 1650. and formed a small vol. (quarto) of fifty pages entitled "Vertooghb van Nieuw Nederlandt, weghens de Ghelegenhetyd, Vruchtbaerheydt, en soberen Slaet desselfs. In s' Graven Hage 1650, (An Exposition of the New Netherlands, in respect to the situation, fertility, and wretched condition of the country.