One of the articles of capitulation drawn up by the commissioners at the surrender, declared that "all people shall continue free denizens, and shall enjoy their lands, houses and goods, wheresoever they are within this country, and dispose of them as they please.'"

On Sept. 21, 1666, Mary Doughty, widow of the late Adriaen Van der

Donck, and wife of Hugh ©'Neale,*^ in right of her former husband,

*iaimed "all that land upon the maine not far from Westchester, called

, the Younckers land, and brought forward several Indians to prove the

purchase." "

On October 8, 1666, iSth King Charles II. Governor Nicolls granted the follomng patent to Mr. Hugh O'Neale and ]\Iary his wife : --

PATENT FOR NEPPERHAEM.

Richai-d Nicolls. Esq., governor under his Royal Highness, ye Duke of York, af all his territoryes in America, to all to whom this present writing shall come, Sdndeth greeting : Whereas there is a certain tract of land within this governaient, upon the main, bounded to the northwards by a rivulet called by the

a The in.is«acre here aliuded ro, took place Sept., lG.i5, (iurinf: the absence of Stuwes.^nr, -^'upn the warriora of the Altjoariuin tribes, mad'i a furiou.-i oaset upon the coloay.-- bee Ban- :rofl'3 llUt. U. S., vol. li. 209.

u Alb. Itec. vol. .-cviii. 2.57.

r imith'3 IlHt. of N. Y. p. 19.

rf Hujjh O'Xeale, formerly of Newton, Lone: I«lan(1. ^Vssize Rec. p. 47. "The widow of AJriiu-n Vaa li -r Umck afr-nwirJs raairi^il Wwjh o'.Seali", of Patiixent, M.T-Tlauii. whither, cli.; iiiulh.-r father r.Tu.jv.-d,"-- X. V. I'o!. MSS., UolUiud Doc. vii, vol. I, p. 5'J3*-- [Editor.