After I attained this grant in the year 1640, I resolved to reside here, erected a saw mill and laid out a farm and plantation, and was actually resolved to continue on this spot, when I further with consent of th;.' Director General,- purchased a part of said land from the Indians the original proprietors, who reclaimed it as belonging to them, but the suppliant obsor%'ing that near the Baw kill were valleys used as commons which by enclosure migiit be properly adapted for buy lauds, so was he permitted by the Director General to purchase these valley? from the Indians, on the best possible terms. This induced the the supplicant to follow his plan, having obtained as I already mentioned the con. sent and approbation of the Director General and Council, and included said valleys in his purchase, as he did not possess other low lands. This valley contained about 30 or 40 morgcn,'' with another handsome vale bordering on said, on the back part of the Island of Manhattans, and stretching as far as Paprinemin called by our people, "In Spite of the Dj-vel," where the supplicant was determined to fix his residence as soon as he should have finished all his concerns at the saw kill; and which yet remains his firm determination as soon as he shall have returned

a Hon. Doc. xxxll. 130. Iv.

h IIoU. Doc. x.vxTlL, 141.

c Inili.m name f^vr gtiell money.

a A DiUcli morgeu contilued a little over i acre.<! Enslisti ; 7 morgen containing 13 acres.