Peter Warren, of whom more anon.
The eastern part was originally the property of the Herrings, Harrings or Herrins,--a family prominent among the early Dutch settlers and later distinguished for patriotic services to the new republic.

They appear to have been directly descended from that intrepid Hollander, Jan Hareng of the city of Hoorn, who is said to have held the narrow point of a dike against a thousand Spaniards, and performed other prodigious feats of valour.

In the genealogical book I read, it was suggested that the name Hareng originated in some amazingly large herring catch which (I quote verbatim from that learned book) "astonished the city of Hoorn,"-- and henceforth attached itself to the redoubtable fisherman! The earliest of the family in this city was one Jan Pietersen Haring, and his descendants worked unceasingly for the liberty of the republic and against the Tory party.

In 1748, Elbert Haring received a grant of land which was undoubtedly the farm shown in the Ratzer map.

A tract of it was sold by the Harring (Herring) family to Cornelius Roosevelt; it passed next into Jacob Sebor's hands, and in 1795 was bought by Col.