20 STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
made in 1639. Joan Vingboon, a cartographer of Amsterdam, is 
reputed to be the author, but his connection with the map is not 
certain. ‘The map was practically unknown when the owner, 
Henry Harisse, exhibited the Library of Congress copy in Paris 
in 1892. Harisse by will gave the map to the United States Govy- 
ernment and it was received by the Library of Congress a short 
time ago. It is believed to be the earliest map of New York and 
vicinity showing settlements or other features except in the most 
general way. 
This Manatus map is interesting in many particulars, locating 
as it does nearly fifty plantations, farms, etc., in what is now New 
York City, including “the commenced farm of Jonas Bronck,” but 
its chief interest to us at this time is its indication of a plantation 
on Staten Island near the shore and east of the hills that form the. 
backbone of the island. This plantation is evidently at Tompkins- 
ville in the immediate vicinity of the Watering Place of early days. 
While no reference number is given to the Staten Island plantation 
on the Library of Congress copy, the Costello copy has the num- 
ber 33, to which corresponds in the Costello copy Plan van Dauidt 
pieters and in the Library. of Congress copy Plan van Davidt 
Pietter.12> Now David Petersen DeVries was often referred to in 
the old records as David Pietersz or Pietersen, the surname being 
omitted, and it is clear that DeVries’ plantation of 1639 on Staten 
Island is delineated on the map. Zee 
This map is in excellent condition, 265g” x 18%” in size and 
drawn to a scale of about 1% miles to an inch. Both the Library 
of Congress copy and the Costello copy have been reproduced in 
Vol. 2, plates 41 and. 42, of “Iconography of Manhattan Island” 
by I. N. Phelps Stokes, New York 1916, and the Library of Con- 
gress copy is reproduced in “ Manhattan 1624-1639” by Edward 
Van Winkle, New York 1916. Both of these publications de- 
scribé the map as well as the plantations and farms indicated 
thereon. | 
13 Plan is evidently an abbreviation for plantation. Pietter is no doubt 
an abbreviation for Piettersen. 
