This book is excerpted from Clute's Annals of Staten Island From Its Discovery to the Present Time. It contains concise genealogical essays or notes on eighty early Staten Island families. If your Staten Island ancestor possessed one of the following surnames this book may contain the clue you're looking for: Alston Androvette Barnes Bedell Blake Bodine Bogart Braisted Britton Burbank Burgher Bush Butler Cannon Christopher Cole Colon Conner Corsen Cortleyou Crips Crocheron Cruser Cubberly Decker De Groot De Hart Depuy Disosway Dubois Dustan Eddy Egbert Enyard Fountain Frost Garrison Guyon Hatfield Haughwout Hillyer Holmes Housman Jacobson Johnson Jones Journeay LaForge Lake Larzelere Latourette Lisk Lockman Martino Martling Merrill Mersereau Metcalf Morgan Perine Poillon Post Prall Ryerss Seguine Sharrott Simonson Stillwell Sprague Taylor Totten Van Buskirk Vanderbilt Van Name Van Pelt Wandel Winant Woglom and Wood.