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3. July 24th, 2008 2:30 pm I’ve worked in archaeology in public review, though how public is still proving difficult to accomplish, once proposed to be on record in any public library in NYC. In my research on the last remaining parking lot in the South Street Seaport Historic District, I was somewhat inconvenienced when the Main Reading Room was closed for the Rose family renovation. I used the city histories at the Huntington Free Library on Westchester Square in the Bronx, the former ethnology collection of the Heye Foundation since incorporated into the Museum of the American Indian, in part at the Customs House building next to Battery Park and in Washington, D.C., where the Bronx cast and assembled Civil War Capitol Dome is. Nearby was the since “decommissioned” “New York Unearthed” city archaeology museum space near where Herman Melville wrote “Moby-Dick” in the vicinity of 17 State Street. One of the longest serving mayors William Beekman was concerned with the “road to Harlem” which he seemed preoccupied with. He also maintained a lane from the dockside to the Commons for many years while the early street grid was built. The Commons became the location of the later City Hall, and the location of human remains I’ve also worked on. I recall that the actual clearing that was done gets overlooked in the argument of dates. I read that French- speaking Walloons, cited from near the Ardenne forest, and also built the fort. Where later the English would do business in New Amsterdam, the Allerton Warehouse, (Puritan Isaac Allerton is buried next to Yale U. in New Haven, CT.) his agent, Thomas Hall, who escaped from indentured servitude in the Virginia colony, was to whom the land was “sold” (or passed on to) by Marshal Philip du Treaux or as the Dutch called him “du Troy” its written. Nearby were the “old shipwreck” and the first ferry to Brooklyn. Interestingly, some early English settlements have been found to have been on earlier “unknown” French ones. — Posted by George Myers