"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.

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HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

and crosse the country to eastward by Bronckx his Ryver and Land. The Indyan Propyetors name who was cheife of them is Tackareeck living at the Nevisans' who acknowledged the purchase as before described, and that he had received satisfac" for it. -- Claes y^ Indyan hav^ interest in a part acknowledged to have sould it, and received satisfact" of van der Donck. All the rest of the Indyans present being seven or eight acknowledged to have rec* full satisfaction."

The date of this instrument, 1668, is evidently a clerical error for 1666, as the acknowledgment is recited in NicoU's patent of confirmation which bears day October 8th, 1666.

From this patent it is clear that no part of the patroonship had been parted with since van der Donck's death in 1655. And from the fact that on the 30th of the same October in the same year in which this patent was granted, only twenty-two days afterward, the first conveyance under it was made by O'Xeale and his wife, it seems evident that it was obtained simply as a confirmation of the original title, and an acknowledgment of its validity, by the New English government, in order to make the sale alluded to.