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From: "George Myers" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: Collecting


> Henry Chapman Mercer
>
> He also, from what I read, used the dating of tree rings to date the
> abandonment of the Vera Cruz, Pennsylvania jasper aboriginal "mines," near
> Emmaus, PA. According to the flyer associated with this jasper or
> cryptocrystalline quartz source (others are "nearby," this one "Jasper
Park"
> after the Penn. Turnpike tore through part of it, and cited in the
American
> Anthropologist in it's very early publications) the mine was abandoned
about
> 1600 AD (it may be more precise than that) and antler tools were found in
> the mines. A long fluted point was found in the fields across from the
park
> (fines for removing it) by a former teacher and mineral collector I spoke
> with. A PA State sign says the material was traded as far away as New
> England.
>
> Perhaps someone knows why his middle name was "Chapman"? My great uncle
from
> Grand Manan Island, Canada, Leman Chapman Urquhart, a Master Mariner,
> Captain of the "City of Atlanta", lost to U123 in WWII, also had that
middle
> name, and I wonder, did it have to do with Homer? As Chapman was one of
the
> translators?
>
> George Myers
>
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