By the ensuing spring various improvements had been made, and on July 6, 1643, a land-brief, signed by Director Kieft, " by order of the noble lords, the director and council of New Netherland," was granted to " Jan Throckmorton," comprising " a piece of land (being a portion of Vredeland), containing as follows: Along the East River of New Netherland, extending from the point half a mile, which piece of land aforesaid is 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, meet each other, surrounding the land." The term ik Vredeland " mentioned in the brief (meaning Free Land or Land of Peace) was the general name given by the Dutch to this and adjacent territory along the Sound, which was the chosen place of refuge for persons fleeing from New England for religious reasons. John Throckmorton, the patentee, emigrated from Worcester County, England, to the Massachusetts colony, in 1631. He was in Salem as late as 1639; but, embracing the Baptist faith, removed soon afterward to Rhode Island, where he sustained relations of intimacy with Roger Williams. It is well known that Williams came to New Netherland in the winter of 161243, in order to obtain passage for Europe on a Dutch vessel, and it is not improbable that Throckmorton accompanied him on his journey to the Dutch settlements from Rhode Island. One of Throckmorton's compatriots was Thomas Cornell, who later by the Indians settled and gave his name to Cornell's Neck, called Essex, England, Snakapins. He emigrated to Massachusetts from Island Rhode to went time; a for Boston in inn an kept about 1636; d. in 1611; and from there came to the Vredeland of New Netherlan a On the 26th of July, 1616, he was granted by the Dutch a patent to " certain piece of land lying on the East Rh er, beginning from the kill of Bronck's land, east-southeast along the river, extending about half a Dutch mile from the river to a little creek over the valley back around this land." This patent for Cor(marsh) whichwasruns issued at about the same time that the grant to nell's Neck The Adrian Van der Donck of what is now Yonkers was made.