Records of Meetings 



Meetings of the Association 

 regular meeting, february 1 9, i916 



The meeting was held in the assembly hall of the Museum, 154 Stuyvesant 

 Place, New Brighton. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair and forty persons present. 



The minutes of the meeting of January 15, 19 16, were read and approved. 

 Mr. Edward C. Delavan, Jr., read a paper on the Guyon-Clark homestead 

 at Oakwood and the royal land grants between New Dorp and Richmond, 

 based upon personal researches and family data supplied by Miss S. Gertrude 

 Clark. The paper was illustrated by lantern slides made by Mr. H H. 

 Cleaves from drawings by Mr. Delavan, depicting the Guyon-Clark genealogy, 

 the approximate locations of the land grants described, and the approximate 

 locations of old dwelling houses and public buildings thereon. (See Proceed- 

 ings 6^: 1 13- 139. Feb. 1916.) 



Mr. William T. Davis presented and commented upon a series of local 

 sketches made by Mr. Louis H. Joutel, which include the wheel of Britton's 

 mill at Clove Lake, as it was in 1877, and three views of the Quarantine 

 cemetery near Silver Lake, made presumably at about the same period. Mr. 

 Davis referred to certain of the interesting features of the gravestones, as 

 described by him in Homestead Graves, part 4 (Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc. 

 Staten Is. 2: 36, Special no. 9. Dec. 1889), particularly mentioning one 

 inscription which reads: 



" In memory of Capt. Anthony Rodericks, a native of Portugal and Island 

 of St. Michael, who departed this life September 21, 181 1, aged 16 years. 



Weep not for me my wife and children dear 

 My spirit rests above all care." 



Apparently this records the death of a youth of sixteen who at that early age 

 was a captain, a husband and the father of several children! 



Announced Program 



Mr. Stafford C. Edwards delivered the announced lecture of the evening, 

 illustrated by lantern slides from original photographs, on Quito, Equador: 

 a City of Great Altitude and No Latitude. 

 The meeting then adjourned. 



REGULAR MEETING, MARCH 1 8, I916 



The meeting was held in the assembly hall of the Museum, 154 Stuyvesant 

 Place, New Brighton. 



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