They at once proceeded to sell the lands in fee to different private persons. Notice of the resulting sales must be deferred to the proper chronological period in our narrative. It may be noted here, however, that the principal purchasers of Van der Donck's lands were John Archer and Frederick Thilipse, who later became the lords, respectively, of the Manors of Fordham and Philipseburgh, the former lying wholly, and the latter partly, within the borders of the old patroonship.

CHAPTER BEGINNINGS

SERIOUS

SETTLEMENT-- WESTCHESTER

TOWN,

HE destruction by the Indians of the early English settlements in the Vredeland on the Sound was followed by a long period of almost complete abstention from further colonizing enterprises in that portion of Westchester ™ It is true that after the definite conclusion of peace beCounty. tween the Dutch and the Indians in 1645, both the Dutch government of New Netherland and the English government of Connecticut began gradually to give serious attention to the question of the boundary between their rival jurisdictions, and that the resulting conflict of interests touching the ownership of those lands gave It will be remembered rise to practical measures on both sides. that the Dutch authorities, while permitting Throckmorton and his associates to settle on Throgg's Neck, and later granting Cornell's Neck to Thomas Cornell, simply received these refugees from New England as persons coming to take up their abodes under the proIndeed, the tection of their government and subject to its laws. formal acts of the Dutch director in issuing licenses to the English colonists are sufficient evidences of the merely individual character But while willing to of the first English settlements on the Sound. with homes, England New from s immigrant accommodate separate the Dutch had always regarded the presence of the English on the banks of the Connecticut River, and their steady advance westward To secure in an organized way, with apprehension and resentment. the Dutch title to original and exclusive sovereignty over the whole country, Kieft made land purchases from the Indians, in 1039 and 1010, extending as far east as the Norwalk archipelago, purchases which, however, were matched by similar early deeds granted by the natives to the English to much of territory in the eastern part of After the close of the Dutch and Indian wars, Westchester County. steadily grew in importance, although it was dispute territorial the a number of years before the Dutch found any special cause for complaint on the score of actual English encroachment.