There was besides : This conveyance written with mine own hand is, in consequence of the Secretary's absence, executed in my presence on the thirteenth day of August, XVI, = and thirty as above.

(Signed) Lenart Cole,

Deputy Secretary^^

The lands covered by the above " transport" together with some adjacent land subsequently acquired by Kiliaen van Rensselaer formed the great Patroonship of " Rensselaerswyck." In 1705, seventy-five years later, it was erected into a Manor of the same name under the English law, and continued in unbroken existence till 1837, when the last Patroon Stephen van Rensselaer died.

He devised in fee to his eldest son Stephen the part of the manor west of the Hudson, and to his son William the part east of that river. Under titles derived from these two sons the lands of the old manor, which had not been sold by their father, the last Patroon, in his lifetime, are now held in fee, subject in some cases to former leases the terms of which are not yet expired.

A third keen, long-headed, director of the Amsterdam Chamber was Michael Pauw of Achtienhoven, near Utrecht. Like Godyn, Blommaert, and Van Rensselaer, early in 1630 he bought through agents the Indian title to the lands on the west side of the Hudson River, opposite Manhattan Island from the heights of Wehawken, and Hoboken, to Bergen Point, and also the island of Staten Island. He duly obtained like transports of these regions from the Director and Council, and gave to his Patroonship the name of " Pavonia," a Latinized derivation from his own surname.