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On Feb. 25, 1678, Palmer was granted water rights for his 
mill, and orders were issued to the ‘“ Constable and Overseers of 
Staten Island to permit John Palmer to cut through the great 
pond for more water for his mill at Staten Island.” ” 
A grant to John Palmer of 4500 acres of land on Staten Island, 
including the former grants, dated May 2d, 1684, recites that “ the 
said John Palmer became and now is in Possession of all and 
singular the Premises and hath made great improvemen™ thereon 
by building of Houses, Barns, Stables, Mills, Dammes, fencing 
and other Necessarys for Husbandry.” 3° 
A survey of 5100 acres of land on Staten Island was 5 sinale 
for John Palmer on Jan. 17, 1687, and a patent was issued there- 
fore March 31, 1687,: which erected the whole territory “into 
one Lordshipp & mannor of Cassiltowne.’** This property was 
almost immediately, April 16, 1687, conveyed by deed to Thomas 
Dongan, the governor of the colony,’® and we hear no more of 
Palmer’s connection with Staten Island matters. It is stated in 
the records under date of 1687 that four great guns had been 
discovered in Dongan’s mill on Staten Island.*® 
The records of 1677 mention John Palmer of Staten Island.*’ 
On April 8, 1678, an order was issued to Capt. John Palmer, ranger 
of Staten Island,1® and on Sep. 14, 1678, a petition of John Pal- 
mer of Staten Island is recorded.1® Palmer was a member of the 
council of the colony of New York in 1684-5 and in 1687-8.” 
On Sep. 15, 1683, he was appointed high sheriff of Staten Island * 
12 Cal. Hist. MS. Calendar of Historical Manuscript in the Office of the 
Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y., edited by E. B. O’Callaghan, Albany 
1866, Part II (English manuscript 1664-1776) p. 65. 
13 Patents 5: 141. Delavan p. 64. 
14B Deeds. Liber B of Deeds in the Office of the Clerk of the County 
of Richmond p. 75. Patents 6: 198. Delavan p. 66. 
15 B Deeds p. 80. Delavan p. 68. 
16 The Documentary History of the State of New York, by E. B. 
O’Callaghan, 2:5. Albany 1850. Clute’s History of Staten Island p. 63. 
17, 18,19 Col, Hist. MS. p. 62, 66, 74 resp. 
20 Civil List. Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and 
State of New York, by Edgar A. Werner, p. 317. Albany 1888. 
“1 Hist. Bulletin p. 33. Civil List p. 480. 
