Eronck aforesaid, to dispose of according to pleasure ; they shall be further obliged to rt'- turu the field that they again surrender, that it is iu proper order to be pkjughed, and sowed with grain; this lot of ground they shall have the use during three years, for which Mr. Bronck shall have no other claim than that the land siiall have been cleared and brought into a proper manner of cultivation by the diligence of Peter Andriessen and Lourent Dayts, who from their side shall be holdcu to accomplish their task. 2ist July, 1639. MAUNT JAXSSEX, witness. "a
We find Jonas Bronck again leasing land on the 15th of August, 1639, to Cornelius Jacobsen Stoll and John Jacobsen.''
Jonas Bronck must have died sometime prior to the year 1643, for we find his ^^'idow■, Antonia Slaghboom, at that date married to Arendt van Curler. His descendants are said to be still numerous in the vicinity of Co-xsackie, Green County, and Coeymans, Albany County, New York.
'•' His v\-idow, Antonia Slaghboom, married Arent Van Corlaer, whose name became wath the Indians the representative of justice and goodwill; and their amity for 'Corlear' embraced all the Dutch, to whom they gave his name, ' Bronck's, his land.' ""
By the marriage of Antonia Slaghboom, Bro?ick's /and passed into the Van Curler family. In a letter to the patroon Van Reassalaer, dated, "The Manhattans, this i6th of June, 1643," Van Curler says: --
" I am at present betrothed to the widow of the late Mr. Jonas Bronck. May the good God vouchsafe to bless me in my undertaking, and pleased to grant that it might conduce to His honor and to our mutual salvation. Amen."'^