Records of Meetings 55 



The minutes of the meetings of January 13 and April 6, 1917, were read 

 and approved. 



Mr. Stephen L. Mershon exhibited and presented to the Association a 

 tracing, tinted in water colors, of a map with the title : . 



Map 



of 



New York, & Staten Isl".^ 



And Part of 



Long Island 



Surveyed by Order of His Excellency 



General Sir Henry Clinton K. B. 



Commander in Chief of His Excellency's 



Forces 



&ca. &ca. &ca. 



1781 



Surveyed and Drawn, 



by George Taylor & And''"'. Skinner. 



Surveyors to His Excellency The Commander in Chief. 



The map is 3 ft. 3 in. X 2 ft. 2in. in size. The scale is one inch to the 

 mile. The case in which it was packed and mailed, sealed with the Crown 

 seal, was presented with the map. Mr. Mershon stated that, so far as 

 he was aware, this is the only official copy of the map ever made, having 

 been obtained through application to the British government. It shows the 

 location of the roads and every individual house in existence on Staten 

 Island at the time when the survey was made, and all the important topo- 

 graphic features. 



Doctor Hollick called attention to the apparent fact that what we know 

 as " Burnt Island," at the mouth of Fresh Kill, was not at that time an 

 island, being represented on the map by a peninsula-like extension of the 

 salt meadow toward the north ; also that the name " Smoaking Point " is 

 given to a projecting area of land on the New Jersey shore of Staten 

 Island Sound, a short distance to the north of and nearly opposite to the 

 locality on the Staten Island shore which is now and has been for many 

 years known under the same name. 



Doctor Hollick submitted the following memoranda : 



In the "Chart of the Entrance of Hudson's River, etc.," published in 

 London in 1776 as an official pilot chart of the region, made from surveys 

 by John Gascoigne and others, the New Jersey locality is designated 

 " Smoaking Point " and the Staten Island locality " Johnson's Point." The 



