. Parks and parkways in the Borough of the Bronx, New York City . wq < < o o?J had a planting field, which for many years after was known as Van derDoncks planting field, on what is now the parade ground of Van Cort-landt Park. His first house was erected on the banks of the Neperhaem,now called Saw Mill River, in Yonkers, that name being derived fromthe sawmill which he operated there for some years. The ancient cellar ruins recently uncovered in the park, near theVan Cortlandt House, could not have been those of a house erected byVan der Donck, as some have claimed: but were either the
. Parks and parkways in the Borough of the Bronx, New York City . wq < < o o?J had a planting field, which for many years after was known as Van derDoncks planting field, on what is now the parade ground of Van Cort-landt Park. His first house was erected on the banks of the Neperhaem,now called Saw Mill River, in Yonkers, that name being derived fromthe sawmill which he operated there for some years. The ancient cellar ruins recently uncovered in the park, near theVan Cortlandt House, could not have been those of a house erected byVan der Donck, as some have claimed: but were either the ruins of anancient block-house or more probably were those of the house of GeorgeTippett, which he, describing it as his home lott, sold to Jacobus VanCortlandt in 1713. Whatever, if anything, Van der Donck built on thissite, was at best nothing more than a farm hut, and was certainly de-stroyed in the Indian uprising of 1655; when they threatened to wipeout the Dutch, and too well, indeed, did they keep their word. He had obtained from the States General, t
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