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Drisius (29). Richard Nicolls became the first governor under 

 the Duke of York (30). 



The grants of land on Staten Island made by Governor Nicolls 

 were too indefinite and uncertain to have much practical value 

 (31), and they seem to have been regarded by his successors as 

 mere inchoate promises. One of them, bearing date October 13, 

 1664, of " two hundred acres of land on Staten Island over 

 against the Great Kell" was made to Jacques Guyon (32). 



The right of the English to their newly acquired territory was 

 confirmed by the Treaty of Breda, executed on the 31st day of 

 July, 1667 (33). 



THE GUYON LAND GRANT AND HOUSE, AND THE GUYON 



GENEALOGY 



Jacques I. — Jacques Guyon came from " St. M^tin en LTsle 

 de Re" (34), and was the agent on Staten Island of the Jean 

 Collyn (35), mentioned in Stuyvesant's letter of August 4, 1664; 

 he was described in the Nicolls grant as a merchant. 



On August 16, 1667, Colonel Francis Lovelace was appointed 

 to succeed Governor Richard Nicolls (36) but did not reach the 

 Province of New York until the following year. On April 13, 

 1670, Governor Lovelace, as representative of the Duke of York, 

 obtained from the sachems claiming to represent the Indian 

 owners, a deed of all of Staten Island (37), probably for the 

 purpose of supporting the Duke's claim that Staten Island was 

 not intended to have been included in his grant of New Jersey 

 to Berkeley and Carteret (38). 



In the following July, Jacques Guyon received from the 

 Governor " leave as yett to Continue in ye place where he hath 

 begun a Plantation " (39). 



In October Jacques Cortelyou was ordered to lay out eighteen 

 new lots in addition to the twenty-two already laid out at the 

 Old Town (40). These eighteen new lots probably extended 

 from Jacques Guyon's plantation toward the Old Town Road 

 and were later known as "The New Lots at the Old Town." 



