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be found in Mr. Murphy's translation of De Vries, N. Y. Hist. 

 Soc. Coll. Ser. i, Vol. Ill, and from a very careful consideration 

 of them, the inference appears certain, that not only the planta- 

 tion of De Vries, but also Director Kiefts distillery and buck- 

 skin factory afterwards set up, were at Oude Dorp. Here too 

 chiefly must have dwelt Baron Van de Cappellen's colonists." 



P. 3. " The Miller papers in N. Y. Historical Society Library 

 endorsed ' Paper obtained from Old Judge Mersereau of Che- 

 nango, late of Staten Island — got. Dec. 4th, 1800' contain 

 the reminiscence of Altie Widelar wife of Thos. Burbank and 

 setteF at V. Duzes. She s^ there was 2 or 3 houses at Old Town 

 and at Carls-neck & the Indians run off the Island and murder^ 

 at Old Town all except a little girl who run into the woods — the 

 indian put on her father's clothes and Decoyed the Girl supposing 

 it to be her father her they sav'^. The Indians came principally 

 from Bergan." (See also Morris i: 39.) 



72. 1898. " The summer of 1641 witnessed the commencement of 

 the building of Oude Dorp." (Morris i : 32. 1898.) 



73. "In 1624 Peter Minuit . . . arrived in the country, bringing 

 with him several families of Walloons, . . . These settled at 

 Oude Dorp, Staten Island, and Wahlebocht, Long Island, . , . 

 while a number remained on Manhattan Island." (Morris i : 55. 

 See also Clute 14 ; Rep. N. Y. Commercial Tercent. 77-80. 1914; 

 Stiles 1 : 25. 1869.) 



74. Location of Old Town. — The location of Old Town can be de- 

 termined with considerable accuracy by remembering that villages 

 were usually laid out around crossroads [see plan of Gravesend 

 (1645) and Bergen (1660) on Map of New York Bay and Llarbor 

 by U. S. Coast Survey 1844-5, on file in the library of the Associ- 

 ation], and that a crossroad or lane, separated the Mary Brittain 

 Patent of 1686, for land " formerly laid out for 4 lots at the Old 

 Towne (Record of Patents 5 : 344 ; Land Papers 2 : 87) from the 

 Peter Neue patent of 1685 for land "laid out formerly for two 

 lots at the Old Towne " (Record of Patents 5 : 285 ; Land papers 

 2 : 71), also that in the patent to Mary Brittain there was included 

 a house lot at SE. corner of Peter Neue's land which was at the 

 crossroads. ^^ This point presumably the central point of Old 



12 For location of colonial patents see maps of Colonial Grants by- 

 George M. Root, on file in the Borough President's office. 



