Each passenger whom he entertained was to pay " 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 or grass, or twelve stivers wampum, provided the grass be in thehayfence." The site of the ferry landing on the Manhattan side is located by Biker, in his "History of Harlem," at the north of One Hundred and Twenty-third Street, three hundred feet west of First Avenue. But the Harlem aud Westchester ferry proved unprofitable, and in 1609 was abandoned. This step was partly occasioned, however, by the growing promise of more favorable conditions over toward Spuyten Dttyvil, where, on the Westchester side, the foundations of the Town of Fordham were being laid and an era of active settlement had set in; and there Verveelen obtained a new ferry franchise, running from the 1st of November, 1009. The reader will recall that the whole great tract known variously as Xepperhaem, Colon Donck, and the Jonkheer's Land, or Yonkers Land, embraced between the Hudson and Bronx Rivers, and extending to above the limits of the present City of Yonkers, granted by the Dutch West India Company as a patroonship to Adrian Van der Donck, was inherited after his death, in 1665, by his wife, Mary, daughter of the Bev. Francis Doughty, of Maspeth, Long Island. She presently took another husband, Hugh O'Xeale, and removed with him to his home in Patuxent, Md. After the English conquest and the issuance of notification to existing land proprietors to renew their patents, she and her husband journeyed to New York, and appeared before Governor Mcolls with satisfactory evidence of legal ownership of this tract. The governor therefore (October 8, 1666) granted a royal patent to " Hugh O'Xeale and Mary his wife," confirming them in its possession, its limits being thus described: " Bounded to the northwards by a rivulet called by the Indians Macakassin, so running southward to Xeperhaem [Yonkers], from thence to the Kill Shorakkapoch [Spuyten Duyvil] and then to Paprinimen [Kingsbridge], which is the southernmost bounds, then to go across the country to the eastward by that which is commonly known by the name of Bronck's his river and land." As these limits were the original ones of the patroonship, it follows that no part of the Y^onkers tract had been disposed of since Van der Donck's death, and that any persons living upon it previously to October, 1666, were either tenants or mere squatters.