[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Jacobus ■van Cortlandt in possession of the old Younckers, A. D. 1701.^ 1692, we find an Indian chief at Bedford called Wappowham.^ The last remnant of his tribe in this place was a noble Indian by the name of Shucktaman, who occasionally visited the village, but was oftener to be seen in his canoe cruising along the various Ashing grounds of the Hudson. We have shown that the next grantee in Younckers, under the Indians, was the renowned Dutch De Heer Adriaen van der Donck. «i "This illustrious personage was a free citizen of Breda in Dutch Brabant, part owner of the famous turf sloop in which a party of Dutch troops were clandestinely introduced, in 1590, into the castle commanding that city, then in the hands of the Spanish, by which stratagem that stronghold fell into the hands of their high mightinesses the States General.''^ " Van der Donck en-joys the distinction of having been the first lawyer in the colony of New Netherlands. He received his education at the University of Leyden in Holland, where he attained the degree of Juris utriusque Doctor; he subsequently obtained permission to prac-tice as an advocate in the Supreme Court of Holland. In the autumn of 1642 he embarked on board a vessel belongino; to the ' In possession of H. S. Gates, M. D., of Yonkcrs village. b See Van Cortlandt's confirmation. ' See Bedford. d Donck is a village in South Holland, three and a half leagues from Corenm. • O'Callaghan's Hist. N. N. 327.