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Cortelyou was likewise directed to lay out forty more lots at the 

 Great Kill. 



Dispute having arisen between Etienne Geneau and Jacques 

 Guyon as to the latter's right to his grant, arbitrators were, on 

 March 4, 1671, appointed by the Governor (41). Their award 

 must have been in favor of Jacques, for in 1677 Etienne received 

 a grant of eighty acres of land on Long Neck (42). 



The site of the New Dorp does not seem to have been decided 

 upon at this time (43), and it may be doubted whether any village 

 of the Gravesend type was ever laid out in the vicinity, danger 

 from the Indians being past. In January of the year 1671 all 

 holders of grants of land on Staten Island had been ordered to 

 bring them in to the Governor for confirmation (44), and on 

 July 22, 1672, Governor Lovelace directed Mr. Andrew Norwood, 

 Captain Dudley Lovelace, and Mr. Robert Rider to take a survey 

 of Staten Island, with its dimensions and circumferences, to lay 

 the same down on a plat and make return thereof to him (45)- 



A general unsettling of titles resulted from the capture of New 

 York by the Dutch on July 27, 1673 (46), and its cession to the 

 English Crown under the Treaty of Westminster, dated March 

 6, 1674 (47). A new patent was therefore granted by Charles 

 II to James, Duke of York and Albany, on June 29, 1674 (48), 

 and Major Edmund Andros was duly commissioned as Governor 

 of the Province of New York (49). 



Governor Andros, on March 25, 1675, granted a new patent to 

 Jacques Guyon (plate 3) for one hundred and sixty acres of 

 land, with additional meadow (50a). The Boidewins Point re- 

 ferred to in this patent may be the peninsula of upland on which 

 the Wellington Carter house stands. 



By an order in council, dated August 5, 1675, all persons hold- 

 ing warrants for land upon Staten Island were directed to apply 

 to the surveyor within six weeks to have their lands laid out 

 (50b). Many patents for land on Staten Island were issued on 

 September 29, 1677. 



Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter visited Staten Island in 



