"Adriaen Van der Donck died in this country in the year 1655, leaving to his wife Mary, (whom he married in 1645, daughter of the Rev. Francis Doughty, Patentee of Maspeth, L. I.)" the colonies of Colen Donck, or Youkers.^ '• Agatha his mother, and Daniel his brother, came to New Netherland in 1652. Guisbert, Daniel's son, was bom in Holland in 1634. These are the ancestors of such of the name as are now to be found in this country, though the family is called Vanduck or Verdunck. They live principally on Long Island."'^

The following letter was despatched by the Director General, Peter Stuja-esant and council, to Holland, in a vessel called the Fox, commanded by the skipper, Jacob Jansen Hayes : --

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584 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTETt.

Honorable, PrudcrU, Wii<e and Right Respectful Gents: --

AUhougli since our last, letter, uo act of hostility lias been comraittcti, yet tbG?o Of IL^j-iforJ cjatinuc their thre:xtemriy;a, anticipates aucl encroachments, aud purchased fro:n the savages, all the land between Westchester and the North river, includin;^ diirei-ent lots of land, whicli were as well under tlie adininistratio-a of the Hon. Gov. Kieft. a.<3 ours, in the usual manner, granted by letters patent, and in virtue of these, p.issessed by those of our nation, as so among others, the land of Jonas Bronck, the lands of the old Verdonck, divided and setlled hy Idi children. andoAsociates'ia various plantations and farms, but who, in the massacre^ were abscoadctl wiih many others, all which are situated here and bordering on our island, only divided by a s.nall creek, which in some places by low water is passable, so as the_v to us the savages declared and solicited them to purchase otlier lands to the east and the west of the IS'orth river, dated 20th June, 1664.^