Article referencing Adriaen van der Donck:

The Village of Ossining, New York, the oldest incorporated village in Westchester County (established in 1813), is located on the eastern slope of the Hudson River, approximately thirty miles north of New York City. Historically, it was situated along the Albany Post Road, also known as the Turnpike, and today it is accessible via Route 9.

In the early seventeenth century, the area was inhabited by a tribe of the Mohegan Indians known as the Sint Sincks. They owned land extending as far north as the Croton River, then called the ‘Kitchewan,’ while the Kitchawongs tribe inhabited the area beyond this stream. An Indian village, bearing the name Sink Sink, occupied the present site of Sing Sing. As late as 1685, Frederick Philipse referred to this village as “that tract or parcel of land commonly called Sinck Sinck” in his Deed of Conveyance.

The village was also mentioned in the 1656 Dutch map of Adriaen van der Donck, ‘the Yonker,’ Patroon of Colen-Donck, as Sin Sing.

In 1685, the Sint Sincks sold their land to Frederick Philipse, who incorporated it into his extensive land holdings known as the Manor of Philipsburg. This Manor spanned approximately 165,000 acres, extending from Spuyten Duyvil Creek at the southern tip of Manhattan to the Croton River just north of the Village of Ossining. The land was leased to tenant farmers of Dutch, French, and English descent.

The Philipse family retained control of the Manor until the end of the American Revolution. The last Lord of the Manor, Colonel Frederick Philipse, was imprisoned for being a British loyalist. Consequently, his land was confiscated by the Commissioners of Forfeiture of the newly established State of New York and sold at auction. Many farms were purchased by the tenant farmers who had worked them, particularly those who supported the American cause. During this period, the area became known as Sing Sing

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Van der Donck was born in approximately 1618, in the town of Breda in the southern Netherlands to Cornelis van der Donck and Agatha van Bergen. His family was well connected on his mother's side, and her father, Adriaen van Bergen, was remembered as a hero for helping free Breda from Spanish forces during the course of the Eighty Years' War.

In 1645, he married Mary Doughty, whose father, Francis Doughty, had lost his land after irking Willem Kieft, then director of New Netherland. They had no children.
1645 22 Oct; Adriaen Vanderdock, jm van Breda; Maria Douthey, jd van Heemstede

There is no record of Adriaen van der Donck's death, but he was alive during the summer of 1655, and a statement by Stuyvesant in early 1656 seems to indicate that he was dead. He probably died at his farm in one of a series of Indian raids in September 1655, called the Peach Tree War. He was survived in New Netherland by his wife and by his parents, whom he had separately convinced to immigrate.

External links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen_van_der_Donck
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach_Tree_War
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colen_Donck