[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Tlie small settle.jnent of Kingsbridge bordering on the Haarlem river, took its name from a ferry and bridge established here at a very early period of the Colonial administration. The Westches-ter side of the bridge (where stands the Macomb's mansion,) was formerly an island called by the Indians Paperinemen, as » Beauties of Washington Irving, p. 198. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 443 we find the Director General, William Kieft, granting nnto Matys (Matthew) Jansen the isle of Paperinemen, I8th August, 1646. a 1674, John Arclier, lord of the manor of Fordham, laid claim to a neck of land called Hiunock Island, commonly called by the Indians Paperinemen, which he asserted he had by patent. Bat it would appear that Governor Lovelace had already settled an individual by the name of Vervelen upon the island to keep a ferry for the accommodation of passengers between the island and the Westchester shore. To satisfy Archer's claim, however, the secretary of the colony, Matthias NicoUs, agreed to pay a yearly rent for the same. 1692, His Excellency the Governor "out of great favour and