98  STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE oF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
5. Norwood: This is the plantation of Andrew Norwood who 
was granted tracts, of land at the present Stapleton and Clifton 
in the years 1672-76-77. On Sep. 19, 1672, Andrew Norwood 
obtained a patent for 150 acres extending along the shore from 
near the present Pennsylvania Av. to north of Simonson Av. and 
back about to Charles Street. The property is described as 
bounded on the north side upon land of Capt. Dudley Lovelace 
near the Watering Place and extending south to the corner of a 
sand bay.*° 
On Sep. 29, 1676, Norwood was granted 372 acres which ex- 
tended along the shore from the above described patent north 
nearly to the present William Street and back to the neighbor- 
hood of Warren Street. This patent recites “ Three Hundred 
Acres of, which said land was heretofore granted by Patent from 
Col. Francis Lovelace (then Governor) unto Mr. Andrew Nor- 
wood and Capt. Dudley Lovelace and a beginning of a settlement 
made thereupon.” #? It is described as bounded to the northward 
by the land of Col. Francis Lovelace. Twenty-five acres “lying 
to the northward of his plantation’ was also granted Norwood on 
Sep. 29, 1677.44 The Ryder map indicates a house presumably 
the homestead of Norwood in the neighborhood of what is now 
Bay and Sands streets, Stapleton. 
Andrew Norwood was the son of Richard Norwood a dis- 
tinguished mathematician. The son had been a resident of the 
West Indies and had communicated to the Royal Society in 1668 
“Observations on Jamaica.’ In 1672 Norwood must have been 
a resident of the colony, if not of Staten Island, for he with Capt. 
Dudley Lovelace and Robert Ryder are ordered by. the governor 
to make a survey of Staten Island (p. 102). 
In 1676 Norwood is referred to in a description of a survey of 
his property as a “merchant of Barbadoes,”’ but from 1677 to 
1679 he must have been in the colony, probably living on Staten 
Island, for in 1677 he was appointed surveyor of Staten Island 
as appears from the following: 
39 Patents 3: 19. Delavan p. 60. 
40 Patents 4: 109. Delavan p. 60. 
41 Patents 4: 141. Delavan p. 61. 
