savages declared and solicited them to purchase other lands to the east ar^d west of the North river, dat. 20 June, 1664.*

On the I2th of March, 16G4, the Dutch possessions in America were patented to his Royal Highness James Duke of York and Albany, by his brother KingCharles II. This grant was immediately followed by a military and naval armament under the command of Colonel Richard PsicoUs, which reduced the New Netherlands to the subjection of the English Crown, 27th August, 1664.

One of the articles of capitulation drawn up by the commissioners at the surrender, declared that "all people shall continue free denizens, and shall enjoy their lands, houses and goods, whersoever they are within this country, and dispose of them as they please. b

Sept. 21, 1666, Mary Doughty, widow of the late Adriaen van der Donck, and wife of Hugh 0'Neale,c in right of her former husband, claimed "all that land upon the maine not far from AVestchester, called the Younckers land, and brought forward several Indians to prove the purchase.''^

8th October, 1666, 18th King Charles II. Governor Nicolls granted the following patent to Mr. Hugh O'Neale and Mary his wife,

■. - - PATENT FOR NEPPERHAEM. ' \ ^-■

Richard Nicolls, Esq , governor under his Royal Highness, ye Duke of York, of all his territoryes in America, to all to whom this present writing shall come, sendeth greeting : Whereas there is a certain tract of land within this government, upon the main, bounded to the northwards by a rivulet called by the Indians, Macakassin, so running southward to Nepperhaem, from thence to the kill Shorakkapoch, and then to Paprinimen, which is the southermost bounds, then to go across the country to the eastward by that which is commonly known by the name of Broncks's his river and land, which said tract hath heretofore been purchased of the Indian proprietors by Adriaen van der Donck, deceased, whose relict, Mary, the wife of Hugh O'Neale, one of the patentees is, and due saiisfaction was also given for the same, as hath by