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A Seventeenth Century Map of Staten Island? 
THE PLANTATIONS, VILLAGES, AND PLACES SHOWN THEREON 
GrorGe W. Turtrre 
This map is an original manuscript, dated 1670, by Robert Ry- 
der, surveyor (size 17% in. by 51 in., scale about 1 inch—=1.7 
miles), and includes within its limits Manhattan Island, Staten 
Island, and Long Island, as well as the adjacent parts of New 
York and New Jersey. The black and red ink has faded so that 
some of the names are difficult to decipher, but otherwise the 
map is in an excellent state of preservation. It is the property 
of the New York Historical Society, to which it was presented 
by Hon. John Alsop King in April 1903. Mr. King’s heirs could 
not give any information as to the history of the map or how it 
came into Mr. King’s possession. It is now on public exhibition 
at the New York Historical Society’s Building in New York City. — 
There are but two earlier maps of Staten Island known to be 
in existence which give names of plantations or settlements. The 
names relating to Staten Island shown on the Ryder map are the 
following: Shooters Island, Seal Banks, Palmers, Lovelace, Nor- 
wood, Waltons, Old Town, New Dorp, and Billops. 
1 Read May 10, 1923, at a joint meeting of the Section of Historical 
Research and the Staten Island Historical Society. 
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