PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NATURAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 
OF 
Vou. VII. No. 7. 
The regular meeting of the Association 
was held at the residence of Mr. Alex- 
ander Perry, New Brighton. 
In the absence of the President Mr. 
Lester W. Clark was elected chairman 
pro tem. 
The Secretary called attention to the 
recent death of Mr. J. Kadletz, one of the 
oldest members of the Association, who 
always took an active and practical inter- 
est in its welfare. On motion the Secre- 
tary was irstructed to record in the min- 
utes an expression of the loss which the 
Association has sustained in his decease 
and to transmit to his family a copy of 
the Proceedings containing it. 
Mr. E. C. Delavan read the following 
paper, illustrated by means of maps and 
tracings of old and existing property 
lives: 
THE EARLY HISTORY OF ST. ANDREW’S- 
CHURCH YARD. 
St. Andrew’s Churchyard, an ancient 
landmark no less interesting than pictur- 
esque, lies at the head of the Fresh Kill 
upon a knoll rising from a cove of reedy 
meadow. Viewed from the nearby hill- 
side the light green of the calamus against 
the darker green of the meadow grass is 
a marked feature of the landscape. _ 
While the churchyard has been some- 
what enlarged in comparatively recent 
years—for I have been informed by 
Mr. Richard Latourette that a strip of land 
along the northern edge was given by his 
uncle, Mr. John J. Crocheron, and that 
for this purpose the course of the old road 
was changed—its larger or southwestern 
portion has probably remained unaltered 
since William Tilliare and his wife gave 
STATEN ISLAND. 
May 13th, 1899. 
for the purpose of the building of an 
English Church a portion of the land 
which Governor Andros had granted by 
crown patent to James Hubbard thirty- 
one years before. 
Captain James Hubbard, cf Kings 
County, was a surveyor of some eminence 
(14 Colonial Documerts S. N. Y. page 
746.) Governor Edmund Andros on 
December 28th, 1680, granted to him a 
patent for a tract of land ‘‘being at the 
head of the Fresh Kill on Staten Island, 
begit'ning at the Easterly side of a little 
cove of reedy meadow, extending cross 
the creek direct North one hundred rodd 
and from thence direct East two hundred 
and fifty-six rodd, and from thence due 
South one hundred rodd ard from thence 
due West two hundred and fifty-six rodd 
to the said little cove. Containing 160 
acres of land with 16 acres of fresh 
and salt meadow to be laid out where 
most convenient.’’ (5 Patents 18, Sec- 
retary of States Office, Albavy ) As the 
unit of grant was 80 acres, this patent 
covered two lots. 
The location of the cove relatively to 
the body of land so granted is made quite 
clear by a surveyor’sr ough draft pre- 
served in the office of the Secretary of 
State. (1 Land Papers 207.) 
Captain Hubbard died prior to May 24, 
1697, for on that day James Hubard, of 
Kings County, on Nassau Island and 
Province of New York, describing him- 
self as yeoman, and as ‘‘Administrator to 
to the Late deceased Captain James hub- 
ard of theatoresaid county and province, 
Gentl,”’ conveyed to William Tillyer the 
Northerly quarter of the two lots described 
in the patent mentioned, a strip twenty- 
