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been or may otherwise be obtained, which map so made he shall 

 on or before the first day of February next, cause to be delivered 

 into the surveyor general's office." 



In the records of the County of Richmond are the following 

 entries which probably refer to this map and its makers whose 

 names do not appear thereon : 



1797, Dec 14, Bernard Sprong, for making a map of the 

 towns of Southfield and Westfield and surveying Smoking 

 Point Road £6. 6. o. 



Richard Conner for making a map of the towns of Castleton 

 and Northfield and service of Clerk of Supervisors . £7. 2. o. 



This map is probably the first we have, made from a land survey. 

 It differs very little in its dimensions from later maps of Staten 

 Island made by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 and shows most of the roads and buildings in existence at the 

 time it was made. The watering place 1 mentioned by Vander 

 Donck in his Beschryvinge, 1655-6 as follows: " But the outward 

 bound vessels usually stop at the watering place under Staten 

 Island to lay in a sufficient supply of wood and water which are 



1 Director Stuyvesant in a letter to the directors in Holland, dated 

 September 24, 1661, reports that certain persons are trying to influence 

 the King of England to take Fort Amsterdam " by telling him that the 

 West India Co. claims arid holds this province by unlawful title because 

 in 1623 King James had granted to the Company only a watering place 

 on Staten Island and nothing more." 



Moulton in his " History of the State of New York," 1826, says : " But 

 the States it has been further affirmed caused an application to King 

 James for license to erect huts for the accommodation of their fleets 

 sailing during this period of public tranquillity to the West Indies — that 

 the permission was granted, that the name of Staten Island or States 

 Island arose from this incident." 



