At the end of five years the ferry was to be farmed out, but during that time he was to pay nothing for it, and in case the ferry should be let to another, the house was to be valued as it stood, and Verveelen was to be paid for it. Then the rates of ferriage were fixed thus : For every passenger, two pence silver or six pence wampum ; for every ox or cow that shall be brought into the ferry-boat, eight pence, or twentyfour stivers; cattle under a year old, six pence or eighteen stivei-s wampum ; " all cattle that are sivum over " paid but half-price. He was to take from every man " for his meal, eight pence; every man for his lodging, two pence a man ; every man for his horse shall pay four pence for his night's hay or grass, or '

twelve stivers wampum, provided the grass be in fence." Government messages between New York and Connecticut were free. In consideration of his having to build a house on both sides of the ferry, the Governor freed him from paying any excise " for what wine or beer he may retail in the house" for one year from the date of the agreement.'

In Octol)er, lOlw, f tovernor Nicolls granted a patent to the inhabitants of Harlem. Thomas Delaval, Daniel Turneur, John Verveelen and others were the first patentees. He also granted to them four lots of land on the mainland numbered one, two, three and four, near Spuyten Duyvil. He also granted to the people of Harlem, Stony Island, or that part of Morrisania now known as Port Morris.'* The people at Harlem, though they had passed resolutions to stop the passage at Spuyten Duyvil, found that it was noeasy matter to do so.