But the States being on the eve of war with England, and needing the assistance of the rich and powerful West India Company, the latter was enabled to, not only procure the revocation of Stuyvesant's recall, but to detain its bearer in Holland.

2 Of " a certain parcel of laud upon the maine, not farre from W'eat- " Chester, commonly called y« Youuckers Laud." They declared its bounds to be "from a place called Miicackeiiii at y<^ nortli, so to come to Neperan "and to Kill Sonjuupp, then to Mttskotn and Papperem-man to ye south "and crosse y c(uiiitrey to y eastward of Bronck.\ liis lUver and " Land."

the son of Jan Aarsen, from Nieuwhoft', who was nicknamed by the Dutch Koop-al (buy-all), and the son was known as Jan Koop-al, the younger. He had long resided at Oost Dorp (now Westchester). In March and September, 1667, he bought about one hundred and twenty acres of upland and thirty acres of meadow, near the " wading-place." On the upland, just across the meadow from Paparinamin, he founded the village of Fordham. It had the countenance and protection of the Governor, being " in a "convenient place for the relief of strangers, it being " the road for passengers to go to and fro the maine, " as well as for mutual intercourse with the neighbor- " ing colony." The village consisted of about a dozen houses in an extended line, along the base of Tetard's Hill, crossed at the middle by the " old Westchester path" (Albany post road), leading up over the hill towards Connecticut. No traces of these old habitations remain. Two years later Archer acquired all the land southerly to High Bridge, lying between the Harlem and Bronx, which was erected into his Manor of Fordham in 1671.