I wouldn't be a very good "historical" archaeologist amateur if I
didn't say that the English Civil War was at the bottom of John
Scott's troubles too commemorated in "Scott's Cove" in Setauket, NY,
where a spring once ran from hydrostatic pressure, even bottled, ran
dry, across the small embayment from Poquott, where it's thought but
not yet found a small one gun fort was "Fort Nonsense" I think. John
Scott had land grants to Long Island from Oliver Cromwell for Quakers
who he seemed tolerant enough of. However, King James only granted as
far as I know Gardiners Island to David "Lion" Gardiner a spy of the
Dutch in Connecticut and royal "fort architect" who left Old Saybrook
(... the oldest town in the Lower Connecticut River Valley. ... park
created by The Fort Saybrook Monument Park Association", "Fort
Saybrook, Connecticut's first military fortification, built in 1636 by
the British" and residential complex of Katherine Hepburn and family)
after hostilities broke out, mostly according to his descendant Robert
Gardiner, over the loose sales of firearms by the Dutch to the
natives. On the failure of Cromwell's son and the return of the
royalty to the crown under Charles II, John Scott's fate was less than
shall we say advantageous holding useless deeds for Quakers?
On 3/23/07, George Myers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I want to apologize for getting off topic here. If you want to read
> there's a more modern historical view of "Long Island History: John
> Scott, Scoundrel" at:
> http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs318a,0,6633410.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation
>
> The history was written by W.E. Woodward "A New american History"
> published in 1936. I had field school partly in a scallop shell
> midden, now the official shell of New York State.
>
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