Re: more re:Historical Archaeology on the big screen redux

I haven't seen the film yet, ("National Treasure") but I've had some experience in finding that some of the historical past still needs to be written. In the donated transfer of the William Floyd Manor grounds to the Fire Island National Seashore, currently the only Federal "wilderness" in the State of New York, the NPS Denver Service Center had to do some archaeology to the impacts in the preparation of the site for the public. Back in the early 1980s, which effectively took the "beach buggies" off the dunes, I turned in the local archaeologist's report on the history of Fire Island, a "barrier beach" constantly in movement from east to west on the south shore of Long Island at the public hearing held in the William Floyd High School on the proposition, where various groups and individuals entered their opinion on the designation. The hearings were part of a public record. What is interesting to me, as a history buff, I once applied to William and Mary scholarship for grads requiring the GRE in History, which I did well at though as an undergrad had only taken a History of Mexico course, officially, which is another topic, was that the perhaps fourth signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first New Yorker to do so, has had so little information about him in the history of the United States. The Floyd family had been on Long Island since the 17th century, and the current grounds also nearby the Unkechogue native American lands at Poospatuck. He fled in the Revolution the property occupied by the British Army and was a General in the American Army. Why is there a Lloyd bottle seal in the Floyd garden? Were him and the important Tory landowner on the north shore, Floyd on the south shore, once friends or business partners? Was there an "old inlet" in the barrier beach nearby as the one that once serviced Bellport? Things like that, not the crooked school district official in the news today.