The truth m opment bythe Dutch even of Manhattan Island during the period aggreregular any by ed occupi was question/ Only its southern end ation still existed mainly for the gation of settlers, and this aggreg sending to Holland " beavbusiness of bartering with the Indians and produc ts which, as declared er skins minks, and other furs," the only Netherland, were New of ion in the " Report of 1638 on the Condit afforded by the province. had To review the comparative situation in 1610, while the English coll practica and earnest an as d advance steadilv and systematically onizing people, covering the land from Plymouth Rock to the Sound ment with organized settlements which sought the immediate develop with ry, stationa d remaine had Dutch the s, resource e availabl its of all had they true is It only a single settlement worthy of consideration. located and occupied a few trading-posts in and around New York Bay, Bay, as well as in distant parts of New Xetherland-- in Delaware But River. cut Connecti the on and Albany, at Hudson upper on the no case creditable colonizing enthese deavor. enterprises represented in It has been seen that, in the years 1639 and 1610, Cornelius Y an Tienhoven, as the representative of Director-General Kieft, purchased from the Indians, first, a large Westchester tract called Keskeskeck, and, second, lands covering generally the southeastern section of this county and extending to the Norwalk River. This was done to forestall English claims to priority of possession, at that time conspicumatter of land purously in course of preparation. But even inof this the alert English. To chases the Dutch were scarcely aforetime the latter, also, the Indians executed a deed of sale, embracing extensive portions of Westchester County, and nearly as ancient as the first On July 1, 1610, Captain Nathaniel Turner, in beDutch land deed.