[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] 71 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY the first in fact, and that with his coming, about the year 1639, the annals of the civilized occupation of our couuty begin. The little colony of Walloons landed on Manhattan Island by the ship " New Netherland " in the spring of 1023 was, as we have seen, only one of several infant colonies planted on the same occasion and governed by a director of the Dutch West India Company, who had his headquarters in Delaware Bay. The first director, Cornelius Jacob-sen May, was succeeded at the expiration of a year by William Ver-hulst, who in 1(520 was replaced by Peter Minuit. Previously to Minuit's appointment little effort had been made to give a formal character to the administration of the local affairs of New JSether-land, although the interests of the settlements were not neglected. In 1025 wheeled vehicles were introduced, and a large importation of domestic animals from Holland was made, including horses, cattle, swine, and sheep. More-over, some new families and single people, mostly