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. Franciscus Doughty was a member of the ancient and honorable family of the Doughtys or Douteys of Easher Surrey, and Boston, Lincolntt Alb. Rec. XXV.

b Dutch Rec. City Clerk's Office, N. Y. 160.

c Ibid. 279.

d O'Callaghan's Hist. N. N. Appendix, 426.

• Van der Donck'.s Vcrtooghe van N. N.

COUNTY OF WES'I'CIIESTER. 415

shire, England, descended from an English Saxon house of Dohteg, before the conquest, A. D. 1066. a

15th May, 1677, Elias Doughty, (son of the above) jjroprietor of the land heretofore belonging to the Younckers van der Donck, near Eastchester, was invested in the sole ownership by Hugh O'Neale and Mary his wife.

The descendants of Elias Doughty are still numerous in the county of Westchester. Of this family was Francis Doughty of Rye, in 1756, father of John Doughty, Esq., and grandfather of the Hon. John Doughty. The son of the latter is the present General George S. Doughty of West Farms. From Elias Doughty, the old or lutoer Yonkers passed to William Boltz or Belts, Georga TippettSji^ and Joseph Hadley. "The name of the Jo7ickers, (says the Hon. Egbert Benson,) the proprietor of the creek, now Saw Mill creek, van der Kee ; and it is still to be collected from the documents, as not being improbable that the lands granted to Van der Donck and perhaps including the island of the Indian name of Papuriminon^ the southern shore at Kingsbridge were the neighborhood called the Lower Yonck- ERs, as to be distinguished from the other Yonckers, the lands of Van der Kee on the Saw Mill creek. e Tliis distinction between the lower Yonckers and the upper, or as it was sometimes called the little and the old Yonckers clearly points to two different proprietors.