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113. 1679. Oct. 1679. "There are now about a hundred families 

 on the island, of which the English constitute the least portion, 

 and the Dutch and French divide between them about equally the 

 greater portion. They have neither church nor minister, and live 

 rather far from each other, and inconveniently to meet together." 

 (Jour. Danckaerts 70.) 



114. 1685. "It (S.I.) is peopled with above two Hundred ffami- 

 lyes." Gov. Dongan, to Earl of Perth, N. Y. Feb. 13th, 1685. 

 (Col. Doc. 3: 354.) 



US' 1698. April I2th, 1698. A lot was conveyed to the French 



Congreygashone or Church on Statone Island. "To Ereckt and 

 build a Church upon the same." (At Fresh Kill near Green 

 Ridge.) (Liber B Deeds p. 275 ; Morris i : 50.) 



116. Census of population on Staten Island in 1698: Men 328, 

 Women 208, Children 1 18, Negroes 'j'^. Total 727. (O'Cal- 

 laghan Doc. Hist, i : 467.) 



117- 1877. "Subsequently, in 1661, when the Waldenses arrived, 

 and, after them, the Huguenots, the settlements at Old Town, and 

 Fresh Kill received accessions." (Clute 31.) "About the year 

 1665, the first church edifice built on the Island was the French 

 or Waldensian church at Stony Brook. . . . About the same year, 

 1665, there was another church built on the Island. This was a 

 Huguenot church, and stood near the Fresh Kills, or what is now 

 known as the Seaman farm." (Clute 255.) 



V. DUTCH GOVERNMENT SUPPLANTED BY ENGLISH 



1664. Dutch government supplanted by English 

 is the inscription on the tablet. 

 118. 1664. Surrender of New Netherland.— 12th of March: 

 Charles II, King of England, made a grant to his brother James 

 the Duke of York, of the territory occupied by the Dutch. A 

 part of the description of the territory granted, reads as follows, 

 " Togeather alsoe with the said River called hudsons River and 

 all the land from the West side of Conectecutte River to the East 

 side of Delaware Bay." (Col. Laws N. Y. i : i ; N. J. Archives, 

 I ser. 1 : 3, 4.) 



