Yesterday I corresponded with the author on the message you'll find below. Lynn gave me permission to post it on other lists with the following, "Please feel free to pass on my message to anyone that would offer support in the form of a letter. These letters are submitted to the State of NY officials. The state officials are giving me another week or two to get more letters. I've already sent them 500 individual letters of support, now they want another 500?" I will be taking a bit of my time to send a letter today. Maybe you will, too. Gail Ferris in NE --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:33:22 EDT From: [email protected] Subject: [FERRIS] NYC Quarantine Cemetery Remains, Urgent Plea for help To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Genealogy community can help provide a dignified re-interrment of immigrants exhumed from Staten Island Quarantine Cemetery, buried from 1799-1858. Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries of Staten Island NY has sent a plea for letters of support for the proper re-interrment of the immigrant remains that were EXHUMED from a municipal parking lot once the site of the NYC Quarantine Hospital/cemetery. This particular NYC Quarantine station operated from 1799-1858. The immigrants who came to the USA during this time as well as those with disease living in the NYC Metropolian area and were ill (as many were) passed through the S.I. Quarantine Hosp and ultimately many died and were buried at the cemetery now a MUNICIPAL PARKING LOT. These human remains were EXHUMED in 2006. They are now held at a facility located in Brooklyn in storage boxes. Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries has offered a large section of a historic cemetery that we maintain for the proper reinterrment of these HUMAN remains. Without letters of support from you the genealogy community, these remains will be PUT BACK INTO THE PARKING LOT! Paved over once again and forgotten. Please, we ask that you take 1 minute of your time, send a letter of support to: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) . Support the reinterrment to Staten Island Cemetery. Time is once again running out for these unfortunate travelers. We in the genealogy community have accumulated their information, now we must provide to them final dignity. Your letter of support could make this possible. Please send a letter of support today to [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Thank you. Lynn A. Rogers (a descendent of Jeffrey Ferris) Executive Director 917-545-3309 Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries, Inc. Staten Island