[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 406 ^' ' HISTORY OF THE " Patroon Killian van Rensselaer, for the New Netherlands, On his arrival he was created sheriff" of Rensselaerwyck."=i ^fter remaining here for tv\^o or three years, and finding him-self disappointed in his efforts to plant a colony in that neighbor-hood, "he obtained, in consideration of the assistance he afi"orded in negotiating the treaty between the Director General and the Mohawks, and in return for the advances he thenimade to enable the government to purchase presents for the Indians, the tract of land called Nejyperhaem. This valuable property was situated on the east side of Hudson's river, about sixteen miles above New Amsterdam, It was bounded on the north by a stream which the Indians called Maccakassin and ran south to Neper-haem; thence to the tShorakapJwck kill, and to Pajnrinimen creek, called by the Dutch ' Spuyten dnyve!,' whence it stretched eastward to the river Bronx, The title of this colonic was '■Colen Donck,^ Donck's colon}^, and the proprietor thereof was invested with all the rights and privileges contained in the charter of 1629."'^ If Van der Donck obtained these lands in marriage with his wife Mary, as her brother affirmed, he certainly had the sanction of the Lords Directors of the Dutch West India Com-pany, as Earls of the province of New Holland, as well as a charter afterwards, and a deed of confirmation from the ancient lords of the soil. The Indian grantors were Tackarew, Claes, and seven others.