78 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



No. 4. Carta Particolare Della Nuova Belgia e Parta 

 Della Nuova Anglia. From Robert Dudley's Arcano 

 Del Mare Fiorenza 1661. 



(The first edition 1647 contained the same map which was prob- 

 ably prepared from older maps with additions and corrections 

 to about the year 1631.) 

 From the fact that Boston, which was settled in 1630, appears 

 •on the map, while there is no notice of Maryland, which was 

 granted a charter in 1632, it seems probable that the map was 

 made about 163 1. This map is interesting chiefly on account of 

 what is probably the first appearance of the name of this island 

 on a map, the name I. State, being given to a small island near 

 Sandy Hook, which has little resemblance to the real Staten 

 Island. This map indicates, then, that the name Staten Island had 

 Deen given at some time previous to 1647, and probably as early as 

 1 63 1. The Dutch records prove that the name was in use in 

 1630, for the patent to Michael Pauw, of Staten Island, which 

 was attested by Minuit recites : " We the Directors and Council 

 of New Netherland, residing on the Island of Manhatas, under 

 the jurisdiction of their High Mightinesses the Lords States Gen- 

 eral of the United Netherlands, and the General Incorporated 

 West India Company, at their Chambers in Amsterdam ; witness 

 and declare by these presents that on this day the date under- 

 written, came and appeared before us in their own proper persons. 

 .. . . Inhabitants, owners and heirs of the land by us (the Dutch) 

 called the Staten Island, on the west shore of Hamels Hoofden, 

 and declared that for and in consideration of certain parcels of 

 goods ... do by these presents transfer, cede, deliver and convey 

 to and for the behoof of Mr. Michael Pauw. . . . Done at Fort 

 Amsterdam aforesaid, in the Island of Manhatas, on the 10th day 

 of August 1630." 



The following account of New Netherlands in 1627 in a letter 

 from Isaac de Rasures to Samuel Blommaert, found in the 

 Royal Library at the Hague, indicates that Staten Island had no 

 generally recognized name in 1626. 



