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. This sale of the tract, on October 30th, 1666, was made to Elias Doughty, of Flushing, Long Island, who was the son of the Rev. Francis Doughty, and a brother of van der Donck's widow, the then wife of Hugh O'Neale, and vested the entire Patroonship in him.

Elias Doughty at once began the sale of it in different parcels to different individuals in fee. On the first of March, 1667, four months after he had become its owner Elias Doughty sold to John Arcer, or Archer, as this Dutch name was Anglicised,^ " four score acres of upland and thirty of meadow betwixt Broncx river & y'' watering place at the end of the Island of Manhattans,"^ which four years later^ with some adjoining purchases of lands, was erected in his favor into the Manor of Fordham by Governor Lovelace on the 13th of November, 1771.

On June 7th, 1668, Doughty sold to John Heddy * of Westchester a tract of three hundred and twenty acres, now part of the old van Cortlandt estate, recently taken for van Cortlandt Park. The next month, on the 6th of July, 1668, Elias Doughty sold to George Tippitt and William Belts another piece of Colen-Donck, thus described : "A parcell of land& meadow to ye Patent to William Betts and George Tippett who are in jiossession of a part of the same land formerly owned by old Youncker van der Donck which runs west to Hudson's river & east to Broncks River, with all the upland from Broncks River south to Westchester Path, & so runs due east and north