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but as Lovelace in all probability did not possess this plantation or 
reach these shores before 1668 it must have been some time later 
that the map was made.** A printing from a third state of this 
copper plate, about 1676, shows Dover only on Staten Island.® 
A photostat copy of this latter map is in the library of the Insti- 
tute. : 
Later seventeenth century maps show the name Welles in addi- 
tion to the names Old Town, New Town (New Dorp), Dover, 
and Billop. 
Welles on various maps refers to the plantation, at the present 
New Brighton, of Philip Welles, surveyor general of the province, 
who we have observed executed many surveys on Staten Island 
and throughout the province, some of them in association with 
Ryder. Welles resided on Staten Island at least through a con- 
siderable portion of his career. 
A description of a survey of 180 acres of land lying on the 
northeast side of Staten Island joining the northwest side of 
the farm of Col. Francis Lovelace laid out for Philip Welles by 
Ro: Ryder (with draught) is recorded on Nov. 10, 1670,°? and 
a patent for 360 acres of land on the northeast side of Staten 
Island was granted Welles on Dec. 1, 1680,°* as well as another 
grant for the same property on March 17, 1685.°° ‘This land ex- 
tended from the present Sailors Snug Harbor easterly to Jersey 
Street brook and south about to the easterly extension of Forest 
Avenue. | : 
It is inferred that Welles came to New York with Gov. Andros 
in 1674, whose “ steward” he is said to have been in 1675. Wel- 
les, according to the Civil List in 1675, was sheriff of Yorkshire,*® 
a division of the province including Westchester, Long Island, 
81 The Iconography of Manhattan Island, by I. N. Phelps Stokes, 1: 213. 
IN, Wo TOTO, ' 
82 The Town of Dover on Staten Island, by George W. Tuttle. Quar. 
Jour. N. Y. State Hist. Assoc. p. 164. July 1021. 
83 Cale LandeRapersapa zoe landmrapersmiua lane clavanmnaay2: 
Say Patentsm5 4a claveaipaasle 
3 PaaS R39 Qi©@, IDelawein wo. 72. 
86 Civil List p. 485. 
