That, if at any time hereafter his Royal Highness, his heirs, successors, or assignes, shall think fit to make use of any timber for shipping, or for erecting or repairing of forts within this government, liberty is reserved for such uses aud purposes to cut any sort of timber upon anj' unplanted grounds on X\v2 said tract of laud, to make docks, harbours, wharfes, houses, or an)- other conveniences relating thereunto, and also to make use of any rivers or rivulctts and inlet? of water for the purposes aforesaid, as fully and free as if no such patent had lieen granted.

Given under my hand and seal at Fort James, Ne.v York, on the Island of Manhattan, the eighth day of October, in the eighteenth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord, Charles the Second, by the grace of God. of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith. &c., iVc, in the year of our Lord God, 1'jG0.«- RICHARD XICOLLS.

Upon the 30th of October, 1666, Elias Doughty purchased lands in this town, of Hugh O'Neal and Mary his wife. The father of Elias was the Rev. Fnaclscus Doughty. " This minister, I'"ranciscus Doughty, (says his son-in-law, Van der Donck,) in the time of the first troubles in England, came over in order to escape from them to New England, and found himself (to u,-;e a homely phrase,) out of the frying-pan into the

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•586 HISTORY OF THE COL'XTY OF V/ESTCHESTER,