. Rides and rambles on Staten island . quickly to TOTTENVTLLE, and if no stops have been made, the journey from New York has been made inseventy minutes. This is rapid transit indeed, when the old way is compared, whenthe best boats took four to five hours. The station is within a short block of theferry to Perth Amboy, and the steamer Maid of Perth, connecting with all trains,makes the voyage to Jersey a short one. Tottenville is a pretty town, whose contentedcitizens seem at peace with all the world, and when all the world knows their occu- 20 RIDES AND RAMBLES pation, it must be al peace wi
. Rides and rambles on Staten island . quickly to TOTTENVTLLE, and if no stops have been made, the journey from New York has been made inseventy minutes. This is rapid transit indeed, when the old way is compared, whenthe best boats took four to five hours. The station is within a short block of theferry to Perth Amboy, and the steamer Maid of Perth, connecting with all trains,makes the voyage to Jersey a short one. Tottenville is a pretty town, whose contentedcitizens seem at peace with all the world, and when all the world knows their occu- 20 RIDES AND RAMBLES pation, it must be al peace with all Tottenville. Nobody can have anything againstmi oysterman, and most all in Tottenville are oystermen, and while the results of theircatches have made other people happy, they have made themselves 10. Their prettyhomes attest iliis, and their white hulled harks on the shore tell how the busi-ness is done. Tottenville has an HlSTOEIOAL Tkkasi BEin the old Billopp House, called by the natives the stone house. It is located iu a j. TnE Mill, Clove Lake. grove f spreading elms on the very tip end of Staten Island, overlooking RaritanBay. The house was built by Christopher Billopp two hundred and twenty years ago,and for a hundred years was the family homestead, being occupied by the toryColonel Christopher Billopp during the Revolutionary war. and here he was arrested by some patriots and cast into a Jersey jail. In this house Gen. Howe met the Congressional Committee, composed f BerjaminFranklin, John Adams and Edward Butledge, to discuss a treaty of peace, just afterthe battle of Long Island. The parley was without result and the committee returnedto (ongress. For a Ion- time the house was used by the British, either as a barracksor headquarters. The walls are of stone and very thick, and would afford ample pro-tect ion against the guns of that day. The house is in an excellent state of preservation, and the walls and heavy hewntimbers seem as solid as when they were
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