82 STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
Vol. XXX, no. 4, Oct. 1899. Cornelius Vanderbilt. 
Vol. XXXIV, no. 3, July 1903. A List of Settlers on Staten 
Island. This list, copied from New York Colonial Manuscripts, | 
vol. XII, folio 68, gives the names of those who survived the In- 
dian massacre of 1655. The only family names later found in © 
Staten Island history are Jansen and Post. 7 
Wo, Ibi, mo, 2, |iihy noz0, lirancis Lovdacs, Governor oi 
New York, 1668-1673, by J. Hall Pleasants, M.D. The identity 
of the governor, previously disputed, is established and an inter- 
esting story of his life is given. It appears that he was born about 
1622, the third son of Sir William Lovelace, of Kent, England, 
and that he was an ardent royalist in the days of Cromwell and of 
Charles I and II. He served in the civil wars with the rank of 
colonel and was governor of Carmathan Castle when it capitulated 
to Cromwell in 1645. He visited Long Island and Virginia in 
1650 and was probably on the continent in the service of Louis 
XIV in the interval. He spent two years in Virginia and was 
thereafter for a few years in exile with Charles II, being described 
in 1657 as one of the fifty young bloods forming that monarch’s 
retinue. During 1659 he took part in abortive uprisings in Eng- 
land. After the restoration he appears to have received a position 
in the Admiralty as the reward of his loyalty and in 1667 was 
made governor of New York. His administration is described as 
a benevolent autocracy, his most important acts being the establish- 
ment of a merchants’ exchange and a regular mail route in 1673. 
His official residence was Fort James, where it is said he was sur- 
rounded with a degree of state out of keeping with the crudity of 
the environment. He had also a large plantation on Staten Island, 
near what is now New Brighton, and his brothers, Thomas and 
Dudley, had similar plantations near by, all of which have been 
studied by Edward C. Delavan, Jr., to whose accuracy the paper 
under review repeatedly testifies. In 1673 Lovelace’s plantation 
was plundered by the Dutch. The capitulation of Fort James on 
July 30 of the same year by his brothers, while Lovelace was nego- 
