38 STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
historian, has pointed out that changes of place names by the 
English were quite common at the time when Dover first appears 
in the records. 
Thus by Mr. Tuttle’s efforts Dover is shown to have been the 
name given by the English officials to the earliest political center 
of Staten Island, identical with Old Town; later (1680?-1729) 
Stony Brook appears to have been the political center, and numer- 
ous maps of that later period locate Dover there. Finally the name 
Dover was entirely abandoned in favor of the names used by the 
settlers. 
A map of “The Town of Dover upon Staten Island” showing 
ownership of land 1664-1695, which accompanied the original 
paper, 1s reproduced opposite this page. 
