[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It is said that Van Der Donck and his white settlers always treated them with good faith and kindness, and the natural result of this was that they kept their friend-ship to the end. Acquisition* of Land by Philipse.— And now we must become clear, as far as we can, upon the successive land grants to and purchases of Philipse, and their dates. They began, as we have seen, with November, 1672, and went on at least to 1687. On the 12th of January, 1693, he had confirmed to him, by royal charter from William and Mary, all the land (with the exception of the " Mile Square " and the tract sold by Doughty to John Archer in 1677, and which is believed to have included the Island of Pa-perinemen, hereinafter described) between the Bronx and the Hudson from the Croton River to the south-ern boundary of old Colendonck, and besides this, the Tappan salt meadows west of the river. This immense territory was all acquired between 1672 and 1687, through grants and purchases. Sometimes a purchase was made from the Indians, and a Governor's confirma-tion obtained later, and sometimes a Governor's grant was obtained first and the purchase effected after-wards. There are even cases of three or four steps with a single piece of land, viz., a grant from a Gov-1 Of all Westchester County thirty yean later than this, the reports of the Church of England's "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in