The Ancient Little Neck Cemetery |
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Michael Znosko |
…the Ancient Little Neck Burying Ground takes some finding. It’s worth the trouble, though, inasmuch as it encloses the seventeenth-century resting places of some of our most distinguished
colonial immigrant ancestors: Worshipful John Browne and his wife Dorothy, the founders of this community in colonial times; and their daughter Mary Browne Willett, and her husband Thomas Willett, the first mayor of New York City.
We owe to Mr. Michael Znosko the beautiful large-format map of the Ground that appears on the next page. Michael chairs the Ancient Little Neck Cemetery Commission—as close to a sexton as this historical treasure seems to possess. When Valerie and I visited in the fall of 2007, he was extremely kind and helpful to us, and we look forward to learning from him again this year (2009). |
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