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. The first may have been Van der Kee, as Mr. Benson suggests, (although there is nothing in the shape of evidence to support it,) and the second Adriaen van der Donck, the Jonkheer or " young gentleman."

22nd of February, 1670, Joseph Hadley sold fifty acres called Georges PoInt to Matthias Buckhout, who subsequently conveyed the same, 22d January, 1694, to Frederick Phil ipse.

"Upon the 10th of October, in the eleventh year of the reign

* Guillam's Display of Heraldry.

b A. D. 1664, one George Tippett being accused and found guilty of hogg steali ng, the court doth adjudge the delinquent shall pay as a fine to his majestie's use the sum of .£14, or receive ye corporal punishment of thirty one stripes, at the common whipping post, before ye state house of this city, upon yc breaking up of this court, &c. Assize Rec. Alb. 311.