This full sketch of the Patroon of Colen Donck and his career is given, because it shows, that it was owing to what may be called his public life, that he was unable to effect the better settlement of his Westchester Patroouship. His enforced absence for so long a period, was followed by his death two years only after his return to America, too short a time to enable him to carry out any plans he may have formed in regard to it. And also because that career, one of the most striking and remarkable in New Netherland history, was the career of the Patroon of the only Patroouship in Westchester County.

Prior to leaving Rensselaerswyck, and in the year 1645, von der Donck luanied IM;iry Doughty, a daughter of the Rev. Francis Doughty, a New England clergyman, who in 1642, three years before, had been driven, with many of his friends, by the persecuting Puritans of ^Massachusetts from his home in that colony. Having stated publicly, at Cohassct, ''that Abraham's children should have been baptized," he was forthwith dragged out of the assembly and otherwise harshly used; and with one Richard Smith and some others who held like views of baptism, was forced to " escape from the insupportable government of New England ' to New Netherland.' He and his friends were granted in compassion for their sufferings and poverty, a tract, with the privileges of a patroouship for those interested collectively, but without the privilege of milling, or the title of Patroon to any one of them, for GOOO Dutch acres, at Maspeth, on Long Island, dated, March 28th, 1642. But quarrels between the parties themselves, the Indian war, and Doughty's demands for money for himself personally, made the enterprise a failure, and the lands were afterwards, under the law, confiscated to the company by Governor Kieft, and subsequently regranted in parcels, to different individuals.'"