After remaining here for two or three years, and finding himself disappointed in his efforts to plant a colony in that neighborhood, "he obtained, in consideration of the assistance he afforded in negotiating the treaty between the Director General and the Mohawks, and in return for the advances he then made to enable the government to purchase presents for the Indians, the tract of land called '' Neppcrhaem." This valuable property, for which he received a patent from the Dutch authorities in 1646, was situated on the east side of Hudson's river, about sixteen miles above New Amsterdam. It was bounded on the north by a stream which the Indians called "■ I^iaccakassinP and ran south to Ntppcrhcwm ; thence to the SJioraJzapkock kill, and to Papirinimen creek, called by the Dutch "Spuyten Duyvel," whence it stretched eastward to the river Bronx. The title of this colony was " Colcn Donck" Donck's colony, and the proprietor thereof, was invested -with all the rights and privileges contained in the charter of 1629." ^

He also obtained a deed of confirmation for the same from the ancient lords of the soil. This fact is proved by the testimony taken beo Donck la a village la South noUaEd, three aad a half leagues from Gorcum.

6 O'Callaghan's II1.4t. N. N., 327.

t N. y. Hist. Soc. Coll. ii., S.c 1. 27.

d O'CaliagUau'a Illat. of the Ne'.tierlimls, vol. 1.3S2.

580 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WF,STCHESTER.

fore his Excellency, Richard Nicoll, the first English governor of N'^.y York, A.D. 1666, when it was distinctly declared, -- "That the Indian proprietor's name, who was chief of them, was Tackarew, living at the Navisans, (the highlands of the Nevisink, N. J.), who acknowledged ye purchase as before described, and that he had received satisfaction for it.