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westerly by the Fresh Kill Creek leading to Carl’s Neck, southerly and eas- 
terly by Peter’s Creek so called, and northerly by a creek or ditch on the line 
of meadow of David Latourette and contains about four acres of land be the 
same, more or less.” Description of 1855. Deeds, Liber 207, p. 279. 
Ridgway’s Island. “ Also one lot or parcel of salt meadow formerly be- 
longing to Joseph Decker, situate on the east side of the neck, bounded . . 
. southeasterly by a small ditch that separates it from meadows called Ridg- 
way’s Island.” 1886. Deeds, Liber 187, p. 500. 
Peteets Island. “ . . . a small island of salt meadow or marsh on 
ye north side of a creek called ye Fresh Kill, containing three acres. Be- 
ginning at ye mouth of a small creek lying east by north from an island of 
upland formerly called Peteets Island. 1722, Liber C. p. 100. 
Van Cieft Island. At Great Fresh Kill and Staten Island Sound. See 
Van Cleft Creek. 
REEFS, ROCKS, SHOALS, ETC. 
Mill Reef. “ A beacon on the Mill Reef, opposite New Brighton, is very 
necessary, if we may judge from the fact that almost every day vessels are 
seen there fast. upon the rocks. Coal boats, of which a great number go up 
the river laden from Elizabethport, are frequently detained a long time and 
seriously injured, there being nothing whatever to warn them of their dan- 
ger.” Richmond County Gazette, March 14, 1860. 
Flat Rock. “ Also a certain parcel of meadow lying on the north side of 
the Fresh Kills near the mouth thereof beginning near the Flat Rock. : 
being bonded by the west to the Sound on the north on the meadows not lay- 
ed out and on the east and south by the small creek aforesaid and the Fresh 
Kill containing sixteen acres and two rods, there being five acres allowed for 
creeks, ponds and marshes as by the said patent. . . . ” 1708, Liber 
Depy dle: 
Great Rock. “ . . . on the south side of the Fresh Kills beginning 
at a great rock near a gom tree that is marked on the south side on the King 
road running from thence upon a direct line to an old white oak stump and 
chestnut stump standing together with a stone planted by the stumps and 
from thence running east to the line of Francis Orselston and from thence 
running upon a direct line north to the Ready Meadow and from thence west 
to a marked stump with a stone by the stump and from thence to the tree 
where it began always excepted out of the same the Kings road and one acre 
of ground granted by the said John Belleville to the French Congregacon.” 
1735, Liber D, p. 141. 
The Big Rock. Half way down the “Gully” is the largest exposed rock . 
in Tottenville. 
Yates’ Hole. A deep hole in Fresh Kills just above Lake’s Meadow Island. 
HILLS. 
Hamilton Hill. Crossed by the present Prospect Avenue, New Brighton. 
“On Wednesday morning last the barn of Mrs. S. T. Jones, in Hamilton Hill, 
back of New Brighton, was destroyed by fire.” Richmond County Gazette, 
October 18th, 1865. 
