I.) It was conferred upon him and his associates, on tlic 28th of March, 1642."'' He had reinforced himself now in one year -with some families; but in consequence of the breaking out of the war, they were all driven from tlieir lands with loss of some people, and the destruction of much cattle, losing for the most part all their houses and whatever they possessed. After they had remained a while, and consumed more than they could collect, they came to the Manhattans, where all the refugees resorted at that time, and Master Doughty was minister tliere.'* The Rev. Franciscus Doughty was a member of the ancient and honorable family of the Doughtys or Douteys of Easher Surrev, and Boston, Lincolnshire, England, descended from an English Saxon house of Dohteg, before the Conquest, A. D. 1066.
On the 15th May, 1677, Elias Doughty, (son of the above) propietor of the land heretofore belonging to the Yoiinckers van chr Donck, near Eastchester, Avas invested in the sole ownership by Hugh O'Neale and Mary his wife.
The descendants of Elias Doughty are still numerous in the county of Westchester. Of this family was Francis Doughty of Rye, in 1751^, father of John Doughty, Esq., and grand-father of the Hon. Jolin Doughty. The son of the latter is the present General George S. Doughty, of West Farms. From Elias Doughty, the old or lower Yo>: kers passed to William Boltz or Betts, George Tippetts,'' and Joseph Hadley. "The name of the Jon c kers, (says the Hon. Egbert Benson', the proprietor of the creek, now Saw Mill creek, van der Kee; and it is still to be collected from the documents, as not being improbable that the lands granted to Van der Donck, and perhaps including the island of the Indian name of Fapurlmhioii, the southern shore at Kings