I'm trying to contact Suzanne Spencer Wood

I have lost the new email address that you sent me
Suzannne.  And mine has changed also; If you're
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All the best,
Kris



--- George Myers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 4:39 PM
> > Subject: Jackson-Moore
> >
> >
> > > I worked with Celia Bergoffen, Ph.D., RPA for
> the Queens Historical
> > Association with their director on the problems of
> the Jackson-Moore
> > Cemetery researched by Bergoffen. We excavated
> around all the stones and
> > found that the cemetery had been recreated or
> created by the WPA workers
> > perhaps from the pile of head stones that were
> next to the nursery once
> run
> > by a Japanese-American. We were also in the local
> papers and the NY Times
> > which erroneously mis-stated the terms of our
> employ by the Society. Some
> > school classes also visited, a pretty locked up
> garden maintained by a
> > local, though the recently acquired property
> stretches much further from
> > street to street belying the small "faux" plot
> seen from the sidewalk. The
> > stones were broken at there bases also and no pit
> outlines were found at
> the
> > bottom of their extents anyway. We, I, sort if
> recommended a remote
> sensing
> > survey be done if the lot could be cleared to
> perhaps locate its real
> > location.
> > >
> > > It's importance was that the the British Army's
> "Battle of Long Island"
> > which Washington lost, was plotted from one of the
> descendants house,
> though
> > found after the success of the American
> Revolution, to have no direct or
> > indirect assistance in its battle designs, the
> house occupied by "force" I
> > suppose and near a strategic crossroads. Perhaps
> you or a colleague might
> be
> > interested in providing the service in some future
> plans or grants.
> > >
> > > I read about the (CNEHA newsletter June 2004)
> the search for "The
> Monument
> > Block in Brooklyn" (interesting a boulder was
> uncovered which would have
> the
> > lines between Queens and Kings County redrawn was
> found while we worked on
> > the above job, as stated by the Queens Historian
> who helped us excavate
> the
> > site also, they the contractor for the background
> research of the
> "cemetery"
> > which I was not a part of, photographed in the
> "Daily News" and reported
> by
> > the NY Post and NY Times) and while doing some
> research online at a site
> > about the Mastics and Moriches, interested in the
> first New York signer of
> > the "Declaration of Independence" William Floyd,
> (4th American signer) the
> > estate part of the Fire Island National Seashore
> (FINS) now, which I
> helped
> > excavate just before opening to the public years
> ago, I came across a once
> > resident of that area, Nell Kay, a woman horror
> story writer and found
> these
> > references in the text to the prison and human
> remains. I thought to
> forward
> > it on as a matter of courtesy.
> > >
> > > http://geocities.com/mymastic/Kay5.html
> > > Pages 76-77.
> > > I'm not sure if you've seen them.
> > > Written in 1928
> (http://geocities.com/mymastic/Kay5.html) it was
> reprinted
> > in 1960. Interesting citations of important
> histories in relation to the
> > "Battle of Long Island" and the 5-6000 prisoners'
> treatment resulting with
> > some street locations mentioned.
> > >
> > > George Myers
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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