The elder tsland, Verveelen, upon assuming his new functions, received "the d "require was he where use, liis for " men Papirine or neck of land, good beds to provide a dwelling house furnished with three or lour for for lll(, entertainment of strangers; also provisions a1 all seasons sufa also them, their horses an. I cattle, will, stabling and stalling; on all occaficieni .M„| abie boal to transfer passengers and cattle a causeway of expense the one-third with charued was lie sions It is notem. Fordha to men Papirine from built aeross the meadow in opworthy thai about the time when the Fordham ferry was pul eration the Albany and Boston Posl Roads won- projected ami their construction begun. In the contracl made with Verveelen for taking charge ot the ferry, its location was fixed -at tin- place commonly called Spuyten now village called FordDuyvil, between Manhattan lslan.1 andnowtherestricte d to the point ot ham." This name Spuyten Duyvil, confluence of the Hudson River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek, was. says side Bdsall, originally "applied to a strip on the Manhattan Island to the of the wading place, then to the crossing itself, and finally nock, which still retains it." 1

as to ,,„.,,, ,,.,s always been controversy £ the I 'ordinal significan ,!„. derivation The editor of curious name Snuyten Duyvil. this History requested an ..pinion on the subjeot from the Rev. Dr. Cole, our well-known Westchester authority on the Dutch period and • is 01. rhe following names. Dutch reply: