ICO STATEN IsLAND INSTITUTE oF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
ward sold out his interest to Walton.48 Thomas Walton was a 
constable of Staten Island in 1674.19 
A description of the survey of the two lots above mentioned 
in 1685 runs: “beginning at a Certaine Marked being formerly 
a seller or foundation of a house” (SE. corner).®® This land 
is described as “ Waltons Lott”? May 21, 1703, in award made to 
Mary Stillwell °* and is referred to as the plantation called “ The 
Wallbou Farm” (The Walton Farm ?) lying to the east of the 
Old Town, in the will of Thomas Stillwell, dated May 21, 1704.” 
On Jan. 8, 1688, a warrant was issued to Thos. Hawarden for 
raising the brigantine Richmond aground. in the shoals near Thos. 
Walton’s place on Staten Island.°* 
Cornelius Coursen, principal creditor of Thomas Walton de- 
ceased, petitioned Oct. 15, 1689, for letters of administration.®! 
Waltons was located, according to the Ryder map, at Old 
Town Road and Seaside Boulevard near Sea Avenue at South 
Beach. . His property is shown on map of The Town of Dover 
upon Staten Island in Proc. Staten Is. Inst. for Oct. 1918-May 
1921, opp. p. 38. 7 
7. Old Town: The village has long since disappeared. It was 
doubtless the hamlet not then named, founded by Governor Stuy- 
vesant about 1662, a half hour from the Narrows where he built 
a blockhouse. Stuyvesant mentions this fort with others in his 
letter to the directors April 26, 1664.°° The village was located on 
the Old Town Road in the vicinity of the rightangled turn west 
of Sand Lane not far from South Beach. It is shown on map of 
The Town of Dover on Staten Island referred to above. Patents 
were granted for lots in the vicinity by Governor Nicholls in 1668, 
48 B Deeds p. 13. 
291 Cols Dockers aASi we Neponemonmstate Historian (New York) 1807, 
Colonial Series 2: 244. 
‘ 50 Cal. Land Papers p. 30. Land Papers 2: 67. 
‘1B Deeds p. 430. 
52 Records of Wills New York 7: 108. 
63 Alist. Bulletin p. 57: 
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