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.'"

s N. Y. Col. Hist., 131. WXI7. Col. Hist., 413.

THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE MANORS.

This is the only instance on record of a collective transport of a Patroouship, and seems to have been made ex-gratia as a matter of charity, to the poor persecuted exiles from Puritan Massachusetts, who brought practically nothing but their own persons to New Xetherland. Nothing was paid by them for the land, and all that the grantees had to do, was "to acknowledge the said Lords Directors as their Masters and Patroons, to pay, after the lapse of ten years, the tenth part of the produce of the fields, whether cultivated with the plough, or hoe, or otherwise (orchards and gardens not exceeding one acre, Holland measure excepted)." ' Doughty afterwards removed to Patuxent, in Maryland, where his daughter resided and where he was living in October, 1659.^