LITERATURE RELATING TO STATEN ISLAND 163 
such relics. Mr. Calver, we are glad to say, has given an interest- 
ing collection of the buttons and other articles to our museum. 
The list of American Revolutionary Diaries, v. 6, p. 69, gives 
reference to Lieut. Constant Freeman’s service on Staten Island 
in 1780; p. 104 to Ensign Andrew Lee’s service; p. 106 to Jos. P. 
Martin’s service; v. 7, p. 35 to Oliver Woodruff’s service. 
Old New York Inventories of Estates, v. 6, p. 134-7 include the 
names of Beek, Cole, Crocheron, Hillyer, Johnson, Laforge, Lake, 
Leconte, Lokerman, Perine, Poillon, Prior, Rezeau, Swain, Tysen, 
Van Ame, Veghte. 
Colonial Commissions in v. 7, p. 123-7 also cover Staten Island. 
Co We dee 
THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE N. Y. STATE HISTORICAL 
Society, April 1924. 
This reflects the activity of Staten Island’s historians in five 
paragraphs, viz: p. 202, Mr. Royden Woodward Vosburgh’s The 
Settlement of New Netherland 1624-1626; p. 212, the same 
author’s typewritten copies of church records and gravestone in- 
scriptions; p. 212, the MusrEum BULLETIN’s picture of the Brit- 
ton Cottage; p. 220, the pillar in honor of Pierre Billiou; p. 193, 
Mrs. Oscar F. Moore’s paper on The Spirit of American Women 
during the Revolution. 
Co Wo Ike 
Tue Story of THE WALLOoNS, by William Elliot Griffis, Boston, 
and New York 1923. 
This volume contains a chapter, The Island of the States, de- 
voted to Staten Island, in which the part taken in its settlement 
by the Walloons is treated with much emphasis. Some statements 
made by Dr. Griffis are, however, apparently based upon tradition 
rather than documentary evidence, as for instance, on p. 204: 
“Domines Michelius and Drisius ... visited them once a 
month.” The letter of Drisius to the Classis of Aug. 14, 1664, 
reads: “every two months” and refers to himself, only (Doc. 
