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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 57 (part 3)

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Van der Donck's Colen Donck was the only patroonship ever erected in Westchester County, and was the first of the great landed estates which, during the seventeenth century, were parceled out in this section to gentlemen of birth and means, and various enterprising and far-seeing individuals. All who had preceded him above the Harlem were ordinary settlers, who merely sought farms and home-steads, without any aristocratic pretensions or aspirations. During the nine years which intervened between his death and the end of

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