$66.73 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NATURAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 
OF STATEN ISLAND, 
Vou. VIII. No. cr. 
The regular meeting of the Association 
was held at the residence of Dr. Arthur 
Hollick, New Brighton, 
Inthe absence of the president Mr. J. Blake 
Hillyer was elected chairman fro fem. 
The secretary, in behalf of the executive 
committee, gave the outline of a program for 
three public lectures to be delivered at the 
_ Staten Island Academy in the near future. 
Mr. Wm. T, Davis exhibited three photo- 
gvaphs of grave stones from the old Cruser 
burying ground at ‘ The Cove,” West New 
Brighton, and read the following paper: 
HOMESTEAD GRAVES, 
Inour Proceedings for December 1889 and 
October 1890. issued as Special No. g, under 
the heading ‘‘Homestead Graves’ an account 
was given of such family* burying grounds as 
were found about the old houses and farms of 
tne Tsland. Since those articles were pub- 
lished several more grave stones and another 
burying plot have been discovered, which may 
be added to the previous records. 
Inthe account ofthe Cruser burying ground, 
near “‘The Cove,” West New Brighton, only 
the inscriptions on two stones found in an old 
vault, were given. The other three stones, 
_ which were supposed to have been buried 
_ about the premises, have recently been un- 
_ earthed, and I am indebted to Mr Alexander 
_ §. Rowland for photographs of them, The 
JANUARY Iith, rgo2. 
inscriptions are as follows: 
(I.) 
Hier onder rust her lyk yan Gerrit 
Kroese overleeden den XIen Mey 
A. D. MDCCLX. oudt zynde LVII 
Jaren en XI Maanden, 
(2.) 
Hier onder rust her lyk van Cornelia 
Kroese Doghter van Gerrit Kroese 
overleeden den XVII[len Mey A. D. 
MDCCLX oudt zynde XIX Jaaren. 
(3+) 
Here lies the Body of Closha, the 
widow of Garret Cruser, who de- 
ceas’d March ye 21st Anno Domini, 
1787, In the 77 Year of her Age. 
Cut by Abner Stewart. 
In the private burying ground situated in 
a little clump of trees on a hill-side near the 
shore at Princes Bay, five more stones have 
been found at a short distance from those be- 
fore recorded They were concealed bya 
tangle of bushes and vines at the time of the 
first visit, and their presence was not dis- 
covered until later. The inscriptions are 
as follows: 
(1.) 
Here lies ye Body of Liut Jacob 
Spragg, Aged 51 years, Dec’d Nov’r. 
ye 14, 1745. 
