That, if at any time hereafter his Royal Highness, his heirs, successors, or assignes, shall think fit to make use of any timber for shipping, or for erecting or repairing of forts within this government, liberty is reserved for such uses and purposes to cut any sort of timber upon any unplanted grounds on the said tract of land, to make docks, harbours, wharfes, houses, or any other conveniences relating thereunto,and also to make use of any rivers or rivuletts and inlets of water for the purposes aforesaid, as fully and free as if no such patent had been granted.

Given under my hand and seal at Fort James, New York, on the island of Manhattan, the eighth day of October, in the eighteenth year of the reign of our s-overeign Lord, Charles the Second, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c., &c., in the year of our Lord God, 160G.»

Richard Nicoi.ls.

I have been unable to trace the Patroon's descendanis. That he left children has been clearly shown in the letter dispatched by the Fox, A. D, 1664. On the 26th Auo;ust, 1655, Governor Stnyvesanl grants a piece of land lying on the north side of Manhattans called Miiscootn,b to one Cornelis van der Donck

» Book of Pat. Alb.

b Miiscoota, a meadow or plain of natural grass. The same word is applied to the IlaarlPtn river. •, .

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This purchase lay directly opposite to Yonckers.ti A. D. 1653, Gysbert van der Donck occurs, a defendant in a suit brought by Gulyan Jansen, a carpenter, for the recovery of damages on the loss of clothes sustained by plaintiff, " which through the fault of defendant's fother, then his master, had been stolen by the Tndians."'> 1653, Madame Anna van der Donck occurs as defendant in a suit, (her son Huybert van der Donck. )'^