This valley contained about 30 or 40 morgen,'' with another handsome vale bordering on said, on the back part of the Island of Manhattans, and stretching as far as Paprinemin called by our people, in spite of the dyvel, where the supplicant was determined to fix his residence as soon as he should have finished all his oonceins at the saw kill ; and which yet remains his firm determination as soon as he shall have returned in safety to that country, as he made every preparation to execute his purpose, by commencing to build on that spot and cultivate the soil ; so because he is delighted with that situation, as because it shall enable him to reap all the advantages of the aforesaid valleys, without which all his great expenses which he made at the saw kill, would be in vain and his prospects in future profits would be obscured, while all his toils and labors would have been rendered useless with respect at least to himself, and whereas the supplicant is informed that some greedy land speculators arrived in 1652, to obtain a grant of these lands in a clandestine manner ; so it is that the supplicant now addresses himself to your honors, with great respect that it may please them to resolve that the supplicant shall not be dispossessed of these lands and valleys, by any individual under any pretext whatsoever, by which doing &c. &c.t>

26 May, 1652, occurs an octroy, granting to Adrlaen van der Donck, Patroon of the Colony of Colendonck, power to bequeath his said fief of Colendonck.