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Commission for Mr. Andrew Norwood to be Surveyor for 
Staten Island by the Governor. 
These are to authorize and appoint you, Mr. Andrew Norwood, 
to be surveyor of Staten Island where you are to survey and lay 
out such Lotts or Parcels of land as you shall be employed about, 
of which to make due returnes according to Law, And in all mat- 
ters relating thereunto to behave yourselfe according to the duty 
and place of surveyor. Given under my hand in New Yorke this 
12th day of November, 1677. | 
KX. ANpDRos *” 
On March 26, 1678, an order was given to Andrew Norwood 
to lay out a lot of land on Staten Island, and on April 6 and May 
I4, 1678, his services were again requisitioned.*® 
Charles Wooley in his Journal of a Residence in New York 
1679 says: “ The Fort and Garrison of this place lieth in the de- 
gree 40th and 20 minutes of Northern Latitude as was observ’d 
and taken by Mr. Andrew Norwood, son of the Famous Mathe- 
matician of that name, and by Mr. Philip Welles and Van Cort- 
land Junior, Robert Rider and Jacobus Stevens, the seventh of 
July 1679 with whom I was well acquainted, and at that time 
present with them.” *4 
It appears that Mr. Norwood returned to and died in the West 
Indies, for his will dated April 24, 1684, was admitted to probate 
in the Island of St. Christopher. By virtue of this will the prop- 
erty on Staten Island came into the possession of his son, Henry 
Norwood, of Jamaica, who sold it in 1697 to Antony Bigg of 
Port Royal for £300, Jamaica currency.*° 
6. Waltons: This was the farm of Thomas Walton, who was 
granted with Henry Hedger *° two lots “upon ye Hill to ye East 
of Ye Towne” (Old Town) in 1668.47 Hedger some years after- 
42 Wooley. Wooley’s Journal of a Residence in New York 1679 p. 78. 
William Gowans, N. Y. 1860. 
43 Cal. Hist. MS. p. 66-68. 
44, 45 Wooley p. 22, 78. 
46 Or Hedges, as some think it should be. 
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