History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 55 (part 3)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Pursuant to his perfectly serious intentions respecting his estate in this county, he obtained from the States-General, on the 20th of April, 1652, the right to dispose by will, as patroon, " of the Colonie Nepperhaem, by him called Colen Donck, situate in New Netherland." From this time for more than a year he was constantly occupied in seeking to overcome the obstacles put in the way of his departure for America by his enemies of the West India Company. He evidently regarded the securing of this patent as the final step preparatory to the systematic colonization and de-velopment of Colen Donck; for immediately after its issuance he em-barked his private goods, with a varied assortment of supplies for the colony, on board a vessel lying at anchor in the Texel. But upon ap-plying to the States-General, on the 13th of May, for a formal permit DR. ADRIAN VAX DER DONCK