[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Each passenger whom he entertained was to pay " for his meal, eight pence; every man for his lodging, two pence a man; every man for his horse shall pay four pence for his night's hay or grass, or twelve stivers wampum, provided the grass be in the fence." The site of the ferry landing on the Manhattan side is located by Biker, in his "History of Harlem," at the north of One Hun-dred and Twenty-third Street, three hundred feet west of First Ave-nue. But the Harlem aud Westchester ferry proved unprofitable, and in 1609 was abandoned. This step was partly occasioned, how-ever, by the growing promise of more favorable conditions over toward Spuyten Dttyvil, where, on the Westchester side, the foun-dations of the Town of Fordham were being laid and an era of active settlement had set in; and there Verveelen obtained a new ferry franchise, running from the 1st of November, 1009. The reader will recall that the whole great tract known vari-ously as Xepperhaem, Colon Donck, and the Jonkheer's Land, or Yonkers Land, embraced between the Hudson and Bronx Rivers, and extending to above the limits of the present City of Yonkers, granted by the Dutch West India Company as a patroonship to Adrian Van der Donck, was inherited after his death, in 1665, by his wife, Mary, daughter of the Bev. Francis Doughty, of Maspeth, Long Island. She presently took another husband, Hugh O'Xeale, and removed with him to his home in Patuxent, Md.