https://books.google.com/books?id=jKETAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA718&lpg=PA718&dq=%22fort+levett%22&source=web&ots=GjdO4HMuLP&sig=KtwLvvp1d6P0JtaT6mKcPe_BwkM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA718,M1 A Handbook of New England, Porter Sargent, George H. Ellis Co., Boston, 1917] King Charles I of England granted Levett 6000 acres to found a city the explorer proposed to call York, after his English birthplace. (