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. )'^

Upon the 30th of October, 1666, Elias Doughty purchased lands in this town of Hugh O'Neal and Mary his wife. The father of Elias was the Rev. Franciscus Doughty. " This minister, Franciscus Doughty, (says his son-in-law. Van der Donck,) in the time of the first troubles in England, came over in order to escape from them to New England, and found himself (to use a homely phrase,) out of the frying-pan in the 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 v/ith 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, 2Sth March, 16^2."^ 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 destruction of much cattle, losing for the most part all their houses and whatever they possessed. After they had remained awhile, and consumed more than they could collect, they came to the Manhattans, where all the refugees resorted at the time, and Master Doughty was minister there.e The Rev.