E have seen that the old patroonship of Colen Donck, after being confirmed by Governor Nicolls in 1GGG to Van der Donck's widow and her second husband, Hugh O'Neale, was conveyed by them to Mrs. Q'Neale's brother, Elias Doughty, and by him sold in parcels to a number of purchasers. The southernmost portion was bought by John Archer, and, with other land adjoining, was erected, under his proprietorship, into the Lordship and Manor of Fordham in 1671. North of Archer's purchase was a tract of about two thousand acres, sold to William Betts and George Tibbetts, which stretched from the Hudson River to the Bronx, forming a parallelogram. Other purchasers were John Hadden, who bought some three hundred and twenty acres on both sides of Tippett's Brook just north of the present Van Cortlandt Lake, and Francis French and associates, who wore the original owners of the " Mile Square " in the present City of Yonkers. Finally, all the remainder of the Yonkers land, aggregating 7,708 acres, was disposed of by Doughty, November 29, 1G72, in equal thirds, to Thomas Delaval, Thomas Lewis, and Frederick Philipse. After Archer, none of these purchasers except Philipse require special mention, all the others having been ordinary farming men, who, while good citizens and substantial promoters of the progress of settlement, left little impress upon the development of the country. Tibbetts came from Flushing, Long Island. Betts had lived for a number of years in Westchester, where he served as one of Stuyvesant's magistrates, and later was a patentee of the town under the English patent. Tibbetts, Hadden, and Betts, as settlers outside the limits of Fordham, had various disputes with the authorities of that place, and especially with Archer, the lord of the manor. Being summoned to assist in the building of the " causeway " from the ferry terminal to the firm land, they objected, representing to the governor that this improvement would be of less value to them than a bridge across the Bronx on the road to Eastchester, to whose construction they promised to devote themselves if excused from contributing to the other work.