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From: "W. David Samuelsen" <>
Subject: [NYNEWYOR] Staten Island Quarantine Cemetery
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:10:04 -0600

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Subject: [NY-CEMETERIES] Staten Island Quarantine Cemetery
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:23:15 -0500
From: Vanessa Burzynski <>


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: . 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

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