6o Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



. . . Said Sum of Two Hundred pounds, has not been Suffi- 

 cient to Finish and Compleat the Said Court House ... a Sum 

 not Exceeding the Sum of Twenty Pounds . . . Shall be Raised 

 ... to be applyed for the use before Mentioned." (Col. Laws 

 N. Y. 3: 167, 168.) 



153- 1768. Mathias Swame to John Hillyer Jun. Nicholas Depuy, 

 Richard Connor and Anthony Fountain Supervisors, conveys on 

 the 15th day of July 1768 for the use and in behalf of the said 

 County of Richmond for the privilege of the Court House Goal 

 and Coaler's House now standing or to be put thereon. All that 

 certain parcel of land situate at Richmond town. Beginning at the 

 S. W. corner of Court House as it now stands — including 24 feet 

 or thereabouts — heretofore granted by Richard Cole or William 

 Tillyer to the sd County of Richmond for the use of settling a 

 Court House. (Liber D Deeds p. 618.) 



154 1851. "Saturday Evg. Sept. 14, 1851. Judge Metcalfe says 



there is an entry at Richmond which he thinks he has seen by 

 which record is made of the transfer of the Court House from 

 Stony Brook to Cuckold's Town." (Anthon p. 71.) 



IX. REBUILDING OF BRITISH FORTS BY THE AMERICANS 



1812. Rebuilding of British Forts by the Americans 

 is the inscription on the tablet. 



Extracts from Wilson's Memorial History of the City of New 

 York and from Military Papers of Daniel D. Tompkins, Gov- 

 ernor of New York 1807-1817. 



155. 1807. "In 1807 the City was defenceless, the Narrows and 



the Hell Gate passage being without a fortification. In the spring 

 of that year, the general government, alarmed at the drift of our 

 foreign relations, began a systematic work of harbor fortification." 

 (Wilson 3: 284.) 



156 The History of Early Fortifications around New York City is 



given in Tompkins i : 55-78. 



157. 1808. Governor Tompkins was active in the matter of forti- 

 fication at the Narrows. His letter of May 12, 1808, to Col. Jona, 

 Williams favors works between Hendrick's Reef, and Signal Hill 

 on Staten Island. (Tompkins 2: 78.) 



