TUTTLE: 17TH CENTURY MAp oF STATEN ISLAND 107 
and Staten Island. He was authorized to receive county rates 
in the absence of Sheriff Salisbury, who had gone to England, and 
in 1676 was appointed receiver of debts due the late Dutch West 
India Company. Welles is next called “ Commissary to the Garri- 
son of Fort James at New York.” He was appointed surveyor 
on the 26th of Nov. 1680 and became surveyor general in 1684, 
holding that office until 1687.57 A warrant was issued to Philip 
Welles on Feb. 23, 1684, “to survey the lands and meadows of 
the county of Richmond on Staten Island, and to lay out for each 
person his proper quantity according to his patent, and to ascer- 
tain how much is possessed by those who have no patents in order 
to their procuring the same and to make report.” ** 
Welles was one of the commissioners who ran the boundary 
line between Connecticut and New York in 1684, and being a 
landed proprietor, is found as a justice of the peace in Richmond 
County in 1685.8° A petition of “ Philip Welles of the County 
of Richmond” appears in the council minutes for Oct. 2, 1685. 
On quitting the office of surveyor general, Welles retired to 
Staten Island where we find him residing in 1694.°° 
Welles died about 1704 for we find on Jan. 11, 1705, a peti- 
tion of Richard Merrill, administrator of Philip Welles, late 
surveyor general of the Province of New York, deceased, with 
account.°? 
Se Civilelbist py 177. 
88 Cal. Hist. MS. p. 154. Iconography of Manhattan Island 1: 232. 
Seist, Bulletin» p. Ass. Cale, Elist MS. p, rire: 
80 Wooley p. 70. 
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