56 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



the joint contribution of $2.50 each from L. W. Freeman and Arthur Hol- 

 lick. This was the first newspaper actually printed on Staten Island. It 

 was made up on the imposing stone now in our collection of local antiqui- 

 ties, exhibited and described by Ira K. Morris at the meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation October 18, 1913. (See Proc. Staten Is. Assoc. Arts and Sci. 5: 

 1-7. Oct. 1913-May 1914-) 



Of special interest is the frontispiece to the volume, a steel engraving 

 with the legend " New Brighton ; from New York Bay. Engraved & Pub- 

 lished for the New Brighton Mirror. Painted by Chapman. Eng* by 

 Rolph." A copy of this engraving, with the title " New Brighton in the 

 Vicinity of New York," but without any indication of its place of publica- 

 tion, was secured some time ago and included in our collection of old local 

 views. It was evidently a reprint from the same plate as that from which 

 this frontispiece was made. 



Mr. George W. Tuttle read the following papers : 



(a) Old Court Records of Richmond County, by Edward C. Delavan, Jr. 



(See this issue, p. 22.) 



(b) Comments on the old French map of Staten Island in the vicinity of 



Great Kill, included in Land Papers, Volume i, page 99, in the Sec- 

 retary of State's Office, Albany, N. Y.i 



(c) The Location of the Old Village of Dover on Staten Island, with 



photo-reproduction of a map in the Library of Congress (date 

 1676?) supposeti to be the oldest map of Staten Island on which 

 Dover is indicated. 

 On motion the Section adjourned to meet on Saturday, February 23. 



Arthur Hollick, 



Recorder pro tempore. 



Saturday, February 23, 19 18 



The Section met on the above date, chairman George W. Tuttle presiding. 



Present: George W. Tuttle, Edward C. Delavan, Jr., Arthur HolHck, 

 Stephen L. Mershon, S. McKee Smith. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Danzilio, 

 and Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Durkee were present as visitors. 



The minutes of the annual meeting of January 12, 1918, were read and 

 approved. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick presented the following communication : 



Some years ago I had occasion to deliver an address on Some Celebrities 

 Who Have Lived on Staten Island. In the course of my remarks I re- 

 ferred to the fact that very few authors had utilized Staten Island's natural 



1 Shown at the meeting of the Association Novetnber 17, 1917, and de- 

 scribed in a memorandum by Dr. James Sullivan, State Historian and 

 Director of the Division of Archives and History, State Department of 

 Education, University of the State of New York. 



