That, if at any time hereafter, his Royal Highness, his heirs, successors, or assigns, shall think fit to make use of any timber for shipping, or for erecting or repairing of forts within this government, liberty is reserved for such uses and purposes to cut any sort of timber upon any unplanted grounds, on the said tract of land, to make docks, harbours, wharfes, houses, or any other conveniences relating thereunto, and also to make use of any rivers or rivuletts, and inlets of water, for the purposes aforesaid, as fully and free as if no such patent had been granted.

Given under my hand and seal at Fort James, New York, on the Island of Manhattan, the eighth day of October, in the eighteenth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord, Charles the Second, by the grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, &c., &c., in the year of om- Lord God, 1666." ^

The acknowledgment by the Indians referred to in the foregoing deed, thus appears under date of September 21st, 1668, in Book of Deeds III., at Albany, page 42 :

"This day came Hugh O'Neale and Mary his wife (who in right of her former husband laid claime to a cert" parcele of land upon the Maine not farre from Westchester, commonly called the Younckers land), who bro't severall Indyans before the gov" to acknowledge the purchase of said lands by van der Donck commonly called ye Youncker. The said Indyans declared y'^ bounds of the sd. lands to be from a place called by them Macackassin at y" north so to run to Neperan and to y" Kill Soro-quappock, then to Muskota and Papperinemain to the south.