‘TUTTLE: 17TH CENTURY Map OF STATEN ISLAND 105 
imperfectly however, in Executive Council Minutes, Francis Love- 
lace, 1668-1673, v. 1, opp. p. 237. Albany 1911. 
_ The fact that the date given in the title is about six years too 
early for some of the names shown on the map indicates perhaps 
that it was commenced on the date given in the title and not com- 
pleted until the later date, or was corrected to the later date. If 
we use the date 1676 the documentary evidence we have brought 
out is in entire accord with the map.*° 
This evidence shows quite clearly the relatively large number 
of men influential in the affairs of the colony who either lived on 
Staten Island or had large interest here, as well as the close com- 
mercial relations existing between New York and Barbados, an 
island in the West Indies settled by the English in 1625 and about 
three times the area of Staten Island. | 
Of the two earlier maps showing plantations or settlements 
referred to, the first is “ Manatus gelegen op de noot riviere,” MS. 
plan of New York made in the year 1639 for the Dutch West 
India Company. It is noteworthy so far as Staten Island history 
is concerned by showing the plantation of David Pietersen De 
Vries on Staten Island. A photostat copy of this map is in the 
library of the Institute. The map is described more in detail in 
FROG, Smameny lis, loys, 13 uO,  uo@Z22. 
The second map to show plantations is “ A Mapp of New Jar- 
sey by John Seller” (engraved on copper, 21 in. by 17 in.). 
Staten Island on this map bears the name of seven plantations, 
three marked “Dutch Plantation,” one “French Plant,” one 
“Danne Plant.,’ one ‘“ Dodelus Plant’? and one “ Lovelace his 
99 
pla.” It has been shown that this map was printed from the 
same plate as an earlier map with an entirely different outline of 
Staten Island, and on which only the name “ states I/land”’ ap- 
peared. | 
The British Museum has a copy of this map showing the seven 
plantations on Staten Island to which it ascribes the date 1665, 
80 Dr. James Sullivan, State Historian, first brought this discrepancy in 
dates to the writer’s attention. 3 
