MH'h »■'' afree o.'cerciso of tia-ir reliirinn, powers to plaattowns, build chiircliu.s, nominate matji.s:rat<.-*i and utUniuister civil and criminal jurisdiction." -- (C. F. Uuil'iuan.)

c A. T). l''>64, one Genrite Tippert. heinf? accused and found jriiiltv of hosr:: stealinp, ^'>« Oonrt doth adjudL-f the d>-liiiqiii-;ir ~hHll nay a-j a line, to lii-i niajestio's u>o, x\\.<: .sumo! Xlt.''' rocfive y c iriinr.ii puiii-hnicrr.. of 'hirtv-nm; .strrpes, at the coimnon whippinfr-iio.-r, rxd^r-J ye Statu house of :hu city, uiioa }e bieakiu;; up of tlus Court, oi,;c.-- A.Siize Iteo. Alb. VA.

THE TOW-N OF YONKEUS. 587

liT''.,:?, were the neighborhood called the Lower Yonc^iers, as to be li:.^ti:'.L>'-lisht.•d from the other Yonckers, the lands of Van der Kee, on t):f S.nv Mill creek." This distinction between the lotacr Yonckers and the uf'p^r, or as it was sometimes called, the little and the <;'/</ Yonckers, (Icarlv points to two different proprietors. The first may have been Van iJlT Kee, as iMr. Benson suggests, (although there is nothing in the sliape of evidence to support it), and the second x'Vdraen van der Donck, the Jonkheer or "young gentleman.''

On the 22d of February, 1670, Joseph Hadley sold fifty acres called Geokge's Point, to IMatthias Bucldiout, who subsequently conveyed the same, on the 2 2d January, 1694, to Frederick PhiHpse.

"Upon the loth of October, in the eleventh year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, William the Third, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &:c.. and in the year of our Lord Christ, 1699, occurs the following indenture : --