The total number of land grants of all kinds, from a Patroonship, to a single lot in Manhattan Island, issued by the Dutch Provincial Government from

1 Laws of N. N., v.

> See charter of Hempstead graated by Governor Kieft, in 1G44. Laws N.JJ., 42. » Ibid, 479.

* On Marcli 17, 1064, Stuyvesant and hi» conncil passed an ordinance, tiiat aU ecliool-masters sliould appear witli their Kchool-ohildren every Wediieediiy afternoon in tlie chnrcli. tliat they might be catechised by the Miniaters and Elders. Laws of N. N., 4G1.

HISTOEY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

1630 to 1634, as far complete as the Books of Patents and Town records now admit was 638, as shown by the statement of O'Callaghan api^ended to the second volume of his history. It is not absolutely correct, but is suflSciently so as a very fair approximation. The territories and rights of the original Patroonships on both sides of the Hudson River, with but two exceptions, were subsequently on account of the difficulties of their owners, with the West India Company, and the obstacles they met with in settling their lands, subsequently bought back by the Company. Thus they became again part and parcel of the public domain, and as such were retransported and regranted to various individuals, by the Director and Council. That of New Amstel on the Delaware, was finally conceded to the city of Amsterdam in Holland, as late as 1656, and that city took upon itself the settlement and colonization of that Patroonship.