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Resolved: that the committee, acting- in conjunction with the pubHca- 

 tion committee, be directed to prepare and have printed an edition of 

 r.ooo copies of a special memorial number of the Proceedings, to con- 

 tain the addresses delivered at the dinner, together with such other 

 facts in connection with the occasion as they may consider desirable. 



Mr. Ira K. Morris, for the committee on historical tablet in the Bor- 

 ough Hall, submitted a report, including the following list of historical 

 dates and events selected and approved for inscription on the tablet: 

 1609 — Discovery of Staten Island by Henry Hudson. 

 i6i2 — Dutch Block-house erected at The Narrows. 

 1613 — Settlement of Oude Dorp by Dutch. 

 1624 — Civilized Local Government recognized. 

 1630-36-41-57-70 — Successive purchases of Island from Indian.s, 

 T650 — Stony Brook settled by Waldensians. 



First church on Island, erected at Stony Brook. 

 1660 — Fresh Kill settled by Huguenots. 

 1664 — Dutch Government supplanted by English. 

 1668 — Staten Island separated from New Jersey. 

 1682 — Settlement of Cucklestowne (Richmond). 

 1683 — Stony Brook made County Seat — until 1729. 



First County Court House, erected at Stony Brook. 



Organization of Richmond County. 

 1728 — Erection of second Court House, at Richmond. 

 1729 — County Seat removed to Richmond. 

 T776 — Arrival of British Army on Staten Island. 



Declaration of Independence announced at New Dorp. 



Battle of Long Island planned at New Dorp. 



British-American conference at Billopp House. 

 1778 — Court House and Dutch Ref. Church burned by Britisl;. 

 1783 — Evacuation of the Island by the British. 

 1794 — Erection of third Court House, at Richmond. 

 1812 — Rebuilding of British Forts by Americans. 

 i860 — First steam railroad on Staten Island. 

 1858 — Burning of Quarantine Hospitals. 

 1883 — Bi-centennial celebration of Richmond County. 

 1886— Rapid Transit Railroad opened for passenger traffic 

 1889— Erection of Achter Kill bridge. 

 i8gi(?) — First electric railroad on Staten Island. 

 1898— Staten Island incorporated in Greater New York. 

 1906 — Municipal Ferry established. 



