TuTTLE: SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT OF COMMITTEE AI 
that alone would dissipate doubts as to the accuracy of the quota- 
tion. 
Fortunately E. C. Delavan, Esq., has rediscovered the records in 
the office of the clerk of the County of Richmond. They are con- 
tained in a book entitled “ Records of the Court of Sessions and 
Common Pleas 1710-1745.” 
The first court of which the proceedings are entered in the book 
was held March 6, 1711, but it was not until March 5, 1718, that it 
mentions the court of “common pleas held at Stony Brook.” It 
contains the minutes of the “Court of Sessions held at the Court 
House” March 6, 1721, but it was not before the date March 5, 
1723, that a record of a “ Court of Sessions Held at Stony Brook 
at the Court House” appears. The reference given by Clute was 
therefore correct. 
The records thus show that the County of Richmond had a 
courthouse in the year 1688, that a court of common pleas was 
held at Stony Brook in 1718 and that in 1723 its courthouse was 
at Stony Brook. It is probable therefore that the “Prison and 
Town House” for which the Court of Sessions at Gravesend 
ordered taxes to be levied in 1682, was erected soon after at Stony 
Brook, where it is believed Courts of Session and Common Pleas 
were held until their removal to “ Richmond Towne” in 1729. 
The eighth date and event “1683, Court House erected at 
(Stony Brook)” is therefore probably correct, but is not proved 
to a certainty. This inscription does not take account, it should 
be said, of the more important facts that at this time Richmond 
County was established and courts of justice provided. 
The courthouse at Stony Brook now appears to be the first one 
erected at public expense of which we have a record, and that 
built in 1728-1729 at Richmond the second one. 
The last date when a court is mentioned in the rediscovered 
record as being held at Stony Brook, and the earliest dates when 
courts are mentioned as being held at Richmond, are found in this 
book as quoted from the local histories on page 14 of the Pro- 
