162 STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
Tue New York Historical Society COLLECTIONS 1921, 1922, 
1923, COMPRISING CADWALLADER COLDEN PAPERS, v. 5, 6, 7. 
These contain references to Staten Island as follows: 
V. 5, p- 95: “one Cornelius who said he was brought up on 
Staten Island, that he had been at Braddocks defeat and shewd 
her some linnen which he said was part of the booty,” and p. 97: 
“The last Scalps she saw brought in. was by the afore mentiond 
Cornelius, they were the Scalps of an old man a Woman and boy 
who they shad killed at Schohary on Susquehana River.” These 
passages occur in the affidavit of Margery West, a white woman 
who was a prisoner among the Indians near what is now Athens, 
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ters from Gen. Jeffery Amherst relative to British Encampment 
on Staten Island from July to October 1761. The general planned 
“to Avoid as Much as possible taking any of the Ground, on which 
the Corn may be still standing, or any other that may prove Es- 
sentially Inconvenient to the proprietors thereof.” That his plans 
were not successful, however, may be inferred from a letter dated 
Oct. 6, 1762, from Archbishop Secker to Rev. Dr. Johnson (Doc. 
Col. Hist. 7: 508): “and I think I have secured from the crown 
170" for the damage done by the soldiers to M* Charltons Glebe in 
Staten Island.” 
V. 7, p. 193 and 197 describing the province of N. Y. says of 
Richmond County: “well filld with Inhabitants; no large Tract 
of usable Land being . . . without Cultivation.” 
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Tue New York Historica SOCIETY QuARTERLY BULLETIN. 
This publication has recently contained many items of interest 
to Staten Island. 
V.5, p. 100, illustrates military buttons found at British fort at 
Richmond; others are illustrated in v. 7, p. 56; and the text shows 
the work done by Mr. W. L. Calver and others in excavating for 
