[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] (1664-1783.) The length of this new period was one hundred and nineteen years. It began almost without practical shock to the people of New Netherland. The English noted their strong points, and especially the happy effects of their business integrity. Colonel Nicolls, appointed first English Governor, promptly assured the ten thousand settlers of the extensive province that established rights and usages should be respected. He kept his word, and though few more Hollanders came to America after 1664, yet most of those already here and having business interests remained. On the 8th of October, 1666, Governor Nicolls, on her appli-cation, gave to Mrs. O'Neal a new patent, confirming her in the possession of Colendonck. In two sales, October 30, 1666, and May 16, 1667, she sold it to her brother, Elias Doughty. Doughty disposed of it through four successive sales. First, September 18, 1667, he sold to John Archer of Westchester, the ex-treme southern portion of it, four years after taken into the Manor of Fordham. And then he sold, before 1(570, what was called Lower Yonkers, to William Betts, George Tibbetts and Joseph Hadley; in 1670, one square mile on the Bronx River (still known as " Mile Square ") to Francis French, Ebenezer Jones and John Westcott; and on the 29th of November, 1672, all the rest, known as Upper Yonkers, in equal thirds, to Thomas Delaval, Thomas Lewis and Fred-erick Philipse.