Report of Committee on Historical Tablet 43 



Town is on Old Town Road, a little more than halfway from 

 Sand Lane westward toward the sharp turn in Old Town Road. 

 Buildings now occupied as a moving picture studio, on the south 

 side of the road, are near the spot. 



The Ryder map, which seems to be quite accurate, shows Old 

 Town located in substantially the same place. The grants within 

 the Old Town included (approximately) the tract bounded south 

 and west by Old Town Road, north by Fingerboard Road, and 

 east by Ocean Avenue extended to meet Fingerboard Road. 



III. ERECTION OF THE FIRST CHURCH ON STATEN ISLAND 



1650. First church erected ... by Waldensians 

 is the inscription on the tablet. 



" 1650. Stony Brook settled by Waldensians " and " First 

 church on Island erected at Stony Brook," were selected and 

 approved for inscription by the committee of 1906, as printed 

 in Proc. Staten Is. Assoc, i : 83. Oct.-Dec. 1906. 



75. 1655. The great massacre of the Waldensians occurred in 



April 1655 (Baird i: 184.) 



']^. 1656. March 29th 1656, the City of Amsterdam subscribed 



funds for the distressed Waldenses. (Col. Doc. i: 617.) 



'j'j. Some of the Waldensians, refugees, sailed for the South River, 

 now known as the Delaware River, in Dec. 1656, in three vessels. 

 One of the vessels went ashore near Fire Island Inlet on Long 

 Island, March 8, 1657. Her company were saved, and proceeded 

 in the other two vessels, and are said to have settled in Delaware. 

 (Baird i: 183-186; Brodhead i: 631-632; Vincent 284, 287; 

 Scharf i : 63 ; Albany Records 10: 455; 12: 405-411; O'Cal- 

 laghan Doc. Hist. 4: 83; Col. Doc. 12: 184.) 



^g, 1664. Aug. 4th, 1664, Stuyvesant wrote in relation to assisting 



Huguenots who proposed to settle on Staten Island, and at their 

 request suggests that a minister be sent to them. (Col. Doc. 14: 



554-555-) ■' 



79. First preaching. — August 14th, 1664, Extract from letter of 

 Rev. Samuel Drisius to the Classis of Amsterdam : 



