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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 92 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TOTTENVILLE , a former See also:

VILLAGE

village of See also:

Richmond See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, New See also:

York, U.S.A., and since 1898 a See also:

PART

part of New York See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City. It is on the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

SHORE

shore of Staten See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island in New York See also:

BAY

Bay and on Staten Island See also:

Sound, about 20 m. S.W. of the See also:

south extremity of Manhattan Island, and is the See also:

TERMINUS

terminus of the Staten Island Rapid Transit railway. Marine engines, terra-See also:

cotta and boats are manufactured here, and there are See also:

OYSTER

oyster See also:

FISHERIES

fisheries. The " Billopp See also:

House " here (still See also:

STANDING

standing) was the See also:

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of the See also:

CONFERENCE

conference, on the 11th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1776, between See also:

Lord See also:

Howe, representing Lord See also:

North, and See also:

Benjamin See also:

Franklin, See also:

John See also:

Adams and See also:

EDWARD

Edward See also:

RUTLEDGE, JOHN (1739—1800)

Rutledge, representing the See also:

CONTINENTAL

Continental See also:

CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress, with regard to Lord North's offer of conciliation. This house, originally called the " See also:

MANOR

Manor of See also:

Bentley," was built by See also:

CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain See also:

CHRISTOPHER, SAINT (Christophorus, Christoferus)

Christopher Billopp (1638—1726), who sailed from See also:

England in an armed See also:

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel, the " Bentley," in 1667, and, by circumnavigating Staten Island in 24 See also:

HOURS, CANONICAL

hours, made it, under the ruling of the See also:

DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of York, a part of New York. From the duke of York he received 1163 acres of See also:

LAND

land, including the See also:

PRESENT

present site of Tottenville. The village was See also:

long known as Bentley, but in 1869 was incorporated (under a faulty See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter, revised in 1894) as Tottenville, apparently in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

Gilbert Totten, a soldier in the See also:

War of See also:

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