30 STATEN IsLanpD INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
their proper relative positions but considerably to the south of 
their true positions. This is probably an error in delineation. 
Both the Ryder map and the 1676 map, as we have seen, show a 
house in the present position of the Billop House. It is to be noted 
that range lines 40 chains or one-half mile apart are shown on the 
map, and the origin of this system of rectangles appears to be the 
Billop barn. Mull Creek and the surrounding marsh is shown as 
well as land of Anthony Fountaine, Mathew Larew, Mark Disso- 
sway, and Obadiah Holmes. The road shown at the east end of 
the Fountaine, Larew, and Dissosway properties apparently was 
not built, as it corresponds with no road shown on the 1781 map 
of Staten Island"! or any since that time. The draught is “ Laid 
Downe by A scale of 20 chains to an inch.” A dot and dash line, 
north 45° west, is drawn from the foot of Sharrott Av. to the 
westerly shore, and is evidently intended to represent the north- 
easterly limits of the patent of 1676. 
The above survey and draught was evidently made with a view 
to the issuance of a patent for the property. A copy of the patent 
for the Manor of Bentley issued May 6, 1687,'* is submitted 
(@s Bo : : 
The “ Creeke opposite to the land of Gabriel Minvielle” is Mill 
Creek at Richmond Valley. “The Highway left by the land of 
Anthony ffountaine” is evidently Richmond Valley Road. “A 
pond by the Highlands next to Regroons Creek” is evidently the 
pond between Princes Bay Light and Sharrott Av. 
These surveys of 1676 and 1687 have been plotted on a modern 
map of Staten Island, and their relation to existing landmarks 
brought out. (A copy of this map accompanies this paper.) It 
will be noticed that the survey of 1676 contained 932 acres, while 
the second survey contained 1600 acres, yet both patents, based 
11 A map of New York and Staten Island and Part of Long Island sur- 
veyed by order of General Sir Henry Clinton 1781. Original in British 
Museum. Photograph in Crown Collection of American Maps, v. 5, No. 
22. A. B. Hulbert, Cleveland, Ohio, 1908. 
12 The writer is indebted to E. C. Delavan, Jr., for the use of copies of 
the Billop patents. 
