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Pelt. Much of this knoll was used to partly fill in the adjacent swamps by the 
King Drop Forge Company in 1896. 
VALLEYS AND HOLLOWS. 
: The Gully. A ravine running westerly through Biddle’s Grove, Totten- 
‘ville, to the shore of the Staten Island Sound. 
Christopher's Gully. In the valley of Uncle Ed. Wood’s Brook, near the 
Cove, Tottenville. 
SPRINGS, PONDS AND SWAMPS. 
Aunt Suckey Baker’s Spring. The little stream that once flowed from this 
spring crosses the Todt Hill Road and unites with the Moravian Brook. Many 
years ago the spring was enlarged, walled up and changed into a well, but in 
old time its water was considered to have curative power. Aunt Suckey 
Baker’s maiden name is said to have been Jose’ and Old Jose’ once owned 
this mineral spring on the “Iron Hill.” 
Aunt Nellie’s Spring. Named after Aunt Nellie Storer and situated on 
the shore near Kreischerville. This spring is covered by very high tides. 
Iron Spring. “He said he lived between the Iron Spring and ‘Skunk’s 
Misery’ and had walked five miles to take a look” (at the locomotive). 
Richmond County Gazette, March 28th, 1860. 
Winant’s or Rossville Spring. On the southerly side of the Fresh Kull 
Road in Rossville village. It is really an overflow from a well situated a few 
hundred feet up the hill. 
Boiling Spring. In a brook near the Pines, Tottenville. Also a second 
« Boiling, Spring ” on the flats at Uncle Nat Dubois’, north of Mill Creek on 
the Sound. This spring is submerged when the tide is half flood to half ebb. 
Hessian Spring Mill-pond. Formerly occupied a portion of the valley be- 
tween the present Jersey Street and Westervelt Avenue, New Brighton. The 
following is from the Mirror of February 3d, 1838: “On Thursday last five 
or six men were engaged in cutting ice for the New Brighton Association on 
the mill-pond jst behind the Hessian Spring, at this place, the ice gave way 
and they were precipitated into the water. All were rescued but one, Mr. 
William Ford, who was drowned. We learn that the members of the Asso- 
ciation, with a promptness highly praiseworthy, have resolved to subscribe a 
fund amply sufficient to keep the family of the deceased well provided for dur- 
ing the winter.” (See “Hessian Spring.’’) 
; Great Pond. Probably Silver Lake. “ And also a certain pond commonly 
called the Great Pond, bounded by the lands of Wilhelmus Freeland and 
others, and reserved in the grant of Thomas and Walter Dongan for the lands 
surrounding the said pond, and also a copper and iron mine in the lands now 
possessed by Walter Dongan, likewise reserved in the grant of the said Thomas, 
in as full and ample a manner as in the said grants they were reserved.” 
1794. Liber FE. p. 348. 
Great Pond. Appears to he the wide part of Great Kill near where the old 
Lake mill stood. “ . . . Jot of meadow at the Great IXill containing vet 
acres and ten acres of swampy Reedy meadow by the Great Pond 
1714. Liber C. p. 44. 
