8S 
PART Il 
NEW REFERENCES TO NAMES MENTIONED IN PAMPHLET OF 1896. 
Prince’s Bay. “Prince’s Bay, so called because a British prince once 
landed there during the Revolution, is a barely perceptible indentation of the 
coast.” Richmond County Gazette, Feby. 20th, 1867. 
Narrows. “ A quarter of a century ago, when I dwelt at the ‘ Narrows ’— 
it was not called Clifton then, but all the shore between Van Duzer’s and the 
forts was embraced in the general term of the ‘ Narrows,’ Stapleton had not 
been born nor Clifton dreamed of . . .” Richmond County Gazette, 
March 7th, 1860. 
Sandy Brook. 1720, Liber C. p. 104; 1726, Liber D. p. 81. 
Abraham Tappen’s Brook. Mentioned as lying to the west of Blazing Star, 
now Rossville, in 1774. Liber E. p. 57. (See ’Gene’s or Tappen’s Creek). 
Mark’s Creek. 1784, Liber E. p. 91; 1792, Liber E. p. 348. 
Daniel’s Neck. “ . . . also twenty acres of Meadow lying and being 
on Staten Island aforesaid on the southwest side of a Certain place Commonly 
Called Daniel’s Neck to the northeast and east of a Certain Creek which bounds. 
the Meadow ground now in the possession of the said Mark Dusachoy.” 1734. 
Liber C. p. 454. 
Big Hummock (Beulah) and Little Hummock are situated on Daniel’s 
Neck. (See Great Meadow Island). 
Tunesson’s Neck or Black Point. “ Against John Tunessin’s Neck on the 
EELS side of the said Island-” 1729. Liber C. p. 487. 
commonly called or known by the name of John Tuneson’s: 
Neck, pened to the said John Tuneson by a Patent from Anthony Colvers, 
Goven™ of the Province of New Amsterdam, now New York : 
1741-2. Liber D. p. 359. 
“ Whereas Anthony Colve Govern’ General of New Netherland under 
their High Mightinesses the Lords States General of the United Netherlands, 
and his serene Highness the Prince of Orange, Did by Virtue of a Patent or 
Grant, bearing Date the 10 Ober, 1674, Give and Grant unto John Tunisson 
Van Pelt a Parcel of Land, Scituate upon Staten Island known by the name 
of Black Point being the first Point to the Southward of Dirck De Noorman, 
bounded on the south side by the Creek, on the West side by the Kill Van Koll 
on the North side by the Creek, on the East side by the Woods of the Lords 
States Gen‘, with free Egress at the said Woods.” 1752. Liber D. p. 375. 
“John Tunesson’s Neck or Black Point.” 1748. Liber D. p. 394. 
Old Place is on Tunesson’s Neck. 
Palmer’s Run, Dongan Creek, or Bodine’s Mill Creek. ‘“ Dongan Creek Cause- 
way” is mentioned in the Richmond County Gazette, Sept. 24th, 1873. See 
Causeway. “ Bodine’s Mill Creek ” is mentioned in legal notice in Richmond 
County Gazette, April 12th, 1876, and in other similar notices. 
Burnt Island. “ . . fear a certain place known by the name of 
the burnt Island.” 1784, inher E. p. 449. 
