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that the house and the adjoining enclosure about 600 ft. square 
were where the Guyon House now stands. It is quite probable 
that the enclosed area may have been the cultivated field which 
would require protection from the cattle that ran at large. The 
point of upland extending from near the top toward the bottom of 
the map is evidently that running down to Lake’s mill, and the 
small island on which the Lake House is situated is noticeably 
similar on both maps as well as the points of upland to the west. 
Mill Creek, immediately to the west of the above-mentioned 
point, with its bends and branches, is also noticeably similar on 
both maps, and Lockman’s Creek next to the west, and Duck Creek © 
still farther west, can readily be identified. The creek shown to 
the east of the central point of land above mentioned seems to be 
Bass Creek, which then had a direct outlet to the bay, since cut off 
by the shifting sands. , 
Oyster Island shown on the map helps to determine the growth 
of the point which has apparently extended to the south since 1676, 
perhaps two-thirds of a mile, and the shore line forced inward by 
some 500 feet. As the map is more or less sketched, these figures 
however cannot be regarded with any degree of confidence. 
The line perpendicular to the top of the sheet is evidently the 
meridian line, and the line pointing toward the northwest is in the 
direction of Guyon’s westerly property line. It may be intended 
to represent that line. The villages are sketched in entirely out of 
scale to show within the limits of the map that villages near at 
hand are in the direction indicated. The village shown at the 
easterly margin of the map is clearly New Dorp, and the one to 
the north can hardly be explained except that it is intended to 
represent Stony Brook, which was on the stream leading into Mill 
Creek 3 
Cortelyou was ordered to lay-out the meadow land at Great Kill 
into ten-acre plots, and the records show that they were laid out 
in numbered lots. Real estate maps and the numerous ditches 
shown on the 1890 map mentioned above indicate how they were 
