1To Benjamin Franklin from John and Elizabeth Croker: Deed, 12 October 1745 (Franklin Papers)
: John Croker of Staten Island, N.Y., yeoman, and Elizabeth his wife grant......farming on Staten...
2Receipt to Hector Gambold, 28 September 1747 (Franklin Papers)
...Jersey, and New York, and in 1763 settled on Staten Island as the first Moravian minister...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Potts, 23 April 1761 (Franklin Papers)
...Place and New York, viz. the Ferry over to Staten Island, the Ferry from Staten Island to long
4To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 17 September 1761 (Washington Papers)
...with regard to the destination of the Troops Encampt on Staten Island but a man of war is...
5Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, 20 January 1764 (Franklin Papers)
...the soldiery, the Indians were taken to Province Island in the Delaware at the mouth of the...
6From George Washington to Samuel Athawes, 25 September 1773 (Washington Papers)
...the collection (1982) of Mr. Vincent E. Edmunds, Staten Island, New York. GW dockets it: “Copy...
7Memorandum Books, 1774 (Jefferson Papers)
Sam. Williams proposes to tend in Elk island and at Elk hill...island is 693. strides wide at the...
8[October 1774] (Adams Papers)
...two divided among themselves, i.e. Mass, and Rhode Island....Rhode Island College (now Brown...
91774. Sunday. Octr. 30. (Adams Papers)
...d or rather rowed, Six Miles to a Point on Staten Island where We stoped and went into a...
10To Benjamin Franklin from Caroline Howe, [4 March 1775] (Franklin Papers)
...later he was sent, and the two met again on Staten Island in September, 1776. By then the...