In the permission to settle there given by Director Kieft to John Tlirockmorton and his associates the territory is described as along the East River of New Netherlaud, " being a piece of land surrounded on one side by a little river and on the other side by a great kill, which river and kill on high water running to meet each other." This description covers the present Throgg's Neck or everything east of Westchester Creek and west of East Chester Bay. Throckmorton and his associates, however, had but a short enjoyment of

>1 Broadhead, .318, "Doc. History," t. 326, 329. 2 1 Broadhead, 319. ^ 1 Broadhead, 330.

■•Biker's "History of Harlem," loS-.W ; vol. xi., N. Y. Col. Docs., 44.

^Tuentje or Turnje Juriansen was Bronx's widow. Her name would hardly be recognized to day as the synonym of Antonia Slagboom; but Turnje is the Dutch nickname fur .\ntonia, and as her father (Slagboum) was baptized Jurian, she was Turii.je, the daughter of Jurian, and so called, though to-day she would be Mrs. Bronx. After Bronx's death she married Arendt Van Corlaer, the sherifl' of Rensselaerwick, and on July 10, 1051 , Van Corlaer sold Bronx's land to Jacob Jans Stoll. In 1C62, Matthias de Vos, as attorney for Geertruit Andries, the widow of Van Stoll, conveyed it to Geertrieu Hendrick, the widow of one Andries Hoppen, and she, on the same day, with the consent of her husband, Dirck Gerritts Van Tright, sold to Harmann Smeeman, who, on the 22d of October, sold the same to Samuel Edsall, a beaver-niaker, of New York City, who held it until 1668-70. Edsall was a useful man. In the exercise of his business he had considerable intercourse with the Indians, and learned their language. We find him on several occasions, at Fort Amsterdam and elsewhere, acting as an interpreter.