Charles T. Chatfield was Assistant Engineer in the Division of Street Openings of the Topographical Bureau of Queens. One of his duties was to conduct research into questions of legal title to lands in which the City government was involved. One such research project, evidently one of great importance, involved land at Rockaway Park fronting Jamaica Bay. There may have been prior or subsequent names by which the legal action involving this area was known, but apparently in essence it was designated as the City of New York (Defendant), and the case was argued in the mid 1930s. To bolster claims, it was necessary to conduct research into the very earliest history of the Jamaica and Rockaway peninsula areas. This small collection, ca. ¼ of a cubic foot, consists of the results of this research, as well as of the legal briefs directly or indirectly related to this case, said briefs in themselves containing large portions of historical evidences.