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. Claes, ye Indian, having interest in a part, acknowledged to have sold and received satisfaction of Van der Donck. All the rest of ye Indians, being seven or eight, acknowledged to have received full satisfaction** likewise."

The Jonge Heer being now a member of the privileged order of Patroons,'' enjoyed all the feudal appendages attached thereto, such as power to erect a church or churches; to administer jurisdiction, to decide civil suits, to impose fines, to pronounce the first sentence, finally to exercise all rights belonging to the jurisdiction, of Colen Donck together with the right of hunting, fowUng, fishing and trading according to immunities granted in the same. Soon after the settlement of our Patroon at Colen Donck, there arose a controversy between the government of the Colony of New Netherlands and several of the colonists ; among tlie most forward of the latter was Adriaen Van der Donck, who with others united in a strong remonstrance to the States General of PloUand, complaining of the power exercised by the Dutch West India Company especially during the administrations of Kieft and Stuyvesant. This remonstrance was afterwards printed at the Hague, A.D. 1650, and fonned a small vol. (quarto) of fifty pages entitled " Vertoogh"^ Van Xieuw Nederlandt, weghens de Ghelegenhetyd,Vruchtbaerheydt, en soberen Staet desselfs. In s' Graven Hage, 1650, (An Exposition of the.