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name " Smoaking Point," however, is applied to the Staten Island locality 

 on a "Map of the Country Thirty Miles round the City of New York, 

 etc.," by I. H. Eddy and others, published in New York in 1828 and, so 

 far as I am aware, on all subsequent maps. On the map accompanying 

 Mr. William T. Davis' " Staten Island Names, Ye Olde Names and Nick- 

 names " (Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc. Staten Is., vol. S, No. 5, Special No. 21, 

 Mar. 14, 1896) the name Smoking Point is applied to the Staten Island, 

 and Tufift's Point to the New Jersey locality. The designation, " Johnson's 

 Point " is not recorded by Mr. Davis either in his text or on the map. 



Mr. George W. Tuttle remarked that the map shown by Mr. Mershon 

 was not the only copy of the original in this country, although it is prob- 

 ably the only officially copied one. The Title Guarantee and Trust Co. 

 possess photographic reproductions of the map, reduced in size; and in 

 the Corporation Counsel's office there is a tracing of the map. It is gen- 

 erally regarded as of great value in fixing accurately the exact location 

 of the old roads on Staten Island. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick presented and discussed the following items : 



1. A collection of twenty-nine old local instruments (indentures, agree- 

 ments, deeds, bonds, quit claims, surveys, complaints, warrants of arrest, 

 etc.) dating from the latter part of the seventeenth to the beginning of the 

 nineteenth century, recently donated to the Association by Mr. Horatio J. 

 Sharrett. Extracts from certain of the instruments were read by Doctor 

 Hollick. 



2. Three old pictures of Staten Island scenery, with the following com- 

 ments : 



Under date of April 2, 1917, I received from J. H. Seers, of 25 Abbott's 

 Park Road, Leyton, England, a price list of engravings representing old 

 views of New York and vicinity, which included three of Staten Island 

 apparently not represented in our collection. As a result of subsequent 

 correspondence, in a letter dated July 2, Mr. Seers agreed to dispose of 

 the three views for $5.00. I immediately wrote, requesting that he hold 

 the pictures and that the money would be forthcoming as soon as possible. 

 In the August issue of the Bulletin an appeal was printed for a contri- 

 bution of $5.00 for this specific item, and Miss Bessie E. Davis generously 

 responded. A money order was transmitted on September i, and one 

 week ago, on January 5, 1918, the pictures were received. They are finely 

 executed steel engravings, delicately tinted in water colors, with the fol- 

 lowing titles and information: 



[a] 



The Narrows from Staten Island. 



W. H. Bartlett E. Finden 



London. PubHshed for the Proprietors, by Geo. Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, 1837. 



