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NOVEMBER 1'5’. 2012 THE SAG Hmxnon EXPRESS PAGE 7 VOICE S VCONVERSATION ‘WITH THE SHORT SAHOIRT STORY ill Pickens THE SURVEY From hurricane ‘relief “to. turningfthe power on. we ‘hQIl'd:fI0m; :I o2~o‘f. you. ‘Hereare-ryouiuresponses; they can. - If the‘power‘lines wereunderground it might énotéhavesbeen‘ such a catastrophe-especially when you have heavy snow and icington lines as we did with the second storm. Plus they look *so«ugly. cases where peopleshouldé-have power and don't.... The Story ‘Telling Butter The longtime resident of Sag Harbor who ‘traces his African American roots in this country back more than 300 years spoke last week about his famiiy’s¢hi»story dur- ing. a ilwacheon «at The American Hotel ‘hosted by the Sag Harbor Historical Society. BY ANNETTE HINKLE “Tell me something ironic,” Bits asked pe.ns.ive1y. “Well...” Interrupted. “LOOK’.\’ Whatehave you done to help in the Hurricane Sandy relief effort? 'Do=you.t||‘in|( that LILIPA -has done a suitable job «of_g'etting:power=b‘ack to tong Island? ' ’ - The East End was very fortunate. LIPA did well to get us turnedback on. - Donated *c|oth'e-‘s, food and my time to ‘help organize the transportation of items. - ’Donated~money. - While this was a very significant event, LI PA neededto do a better job inrmany areas: 1) their communication was poor it was near impos- sible to know Wll€Fl'afpf0l3l€lTl was going to be addressed, and 2) they did‘ not have endugh manpower-or supplies earlier-enough to address the multitude of issues. On yollrvmothefs side, your first ancestor in this vcountfI'y=can1e'to longnlsland from England inzthe 11th century. Tell? me: about him. Yes 285491: No 461090» :‘|’.m not sure I826!/r - Begun helping Biloxi Katrina survivors connect with Breezy Point families, as they want to take their turn -paying it ‘forward. - Helping rebuild friend's flooded house. - Give out my generator and cut uprtreesfor free - Given shelter to family. That butter too enchanting. Bits, too enchanted. That ditch, so deep. “BI TS? ST-....” Too late; a In 1670, Humph.1vey‘Morirey came to Oyster Bay. His fa- t:her was a Ffench %Hug~uenot and had left France for\ Eng- land. ‘He was 30, a éyouvnggguy from London —— a mercantile guy. When he got here, he heard about William Penn who had all this «land, got wind of it and moved his business ‘therelto :Ph,i:Iad'e1p11‘ia]‘~. Comments: - They need-to upgrade communication, and ztakemeasures to protect power supplies better in storms. - tthink too many were without power fortoo tong. LIPAE has the company Asplundh trimming tree branches year round around power lines. This-does not appear to havetworked. - The men on therlines I've spoken with could notbe morepolite, sincere and concerned! think that LIPA is doing the best they can in a verydifficult situation. I applaud their decision to get power to-the most peoplestheytcanutheffastest - l~don't think anybody can make that judgment without more information. lthink we are spoiled by a societyithat expects government is the answer and:the salvation. would the East End benefit from a fprofessionaelly-run suicide bereave- ment support group? - ALEXANDR/\ GIRALDO How did you learn this‘ hlfonnation? Humphrey kept meticulous records — he was the sixth wealthiest man in Pennsylvania. That’s why Penn needed him sdesperately. He ‘bought 250 acres in April of 1683. That's directly from the public records. And Humphrey Morrey was recognized as the mayor — William Penn appointed him. - Eight days-withoutrpower-after Irene, 9rdays this time around. Seems’like Northwest is the Land that LIPA Forgot. - They‘ have angered everyone by poor prioritiz- rng. THE SHORT SHORT STORY CONTEST . 9: .1 :5.- As legend has it, Ernest Hemingway won a $10 be! by writing a complete short story in just six words: “For Sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.\ We're introducing a new contest and inviting our readers to submit their own short stories. But we'll give you up to 25 words, and up the ante. We'll publish a new short story here each week through the rest of the year, when our stuff of editors will choose our favorite. The winner gets $250 — that's $10 a word. Not bad for writers these days. Yes. 52.9 °/o N0. l2.1°/o ‘I'm net sure 29.4% No response. 4.9% - It's a monumental task. You can NEVER please everybody. It's seems, however, there are some lhings get=really interesting, historically speaking, withosl-Iumphrey's son Richard and his relationship with ‘Cremona, an African American member of his household. Like Hemmingway, all you need is a beginning, a middle and an end. Send your short story in 25 words or less with your name and Contact informauon to editor@sagharl7oronlinacom. Good luck! Humphrey’s will in 1715 freed his slaves. He was ambiva- lent about slavery. There Was the great awakening in 1688 — the French Huguenots and protestants issued a procla- mation against slavery which condemned it as immoral and «ungodly. But he was aware slaves were valuable eco- nomically and said ‘when I die, I'm freeing them.’ Our family was free in 1715. But Cremona continued to work for Richard Morrey. He watches her grow up — she was a house servant but he knew her since she was a kid — she becomes a comely lass and in 1732 they have a baby, and then they have four more, ending with baby Cremona - my connec- tion - in 1744. Some of the founding fathers were not even born yet LOOKING BACK BY JIM MARQUARDT YESTERDAY'S EXPRESS Into Tokyo Harbor 15 Years Ago November 18, I931 will be music for danc- ing. Members are asked to donate $1 per couple, and guest will be admitted at $1 per person. The East Hampton branch of the Southamp- ton I-Iospita] Auxiliary is making its annual appeal for jellies, jams and canned fruits and vegetables for the hospital. jars and cans may be obtained from Mrs. Wil- liam Schaible. A special ap- peal is made for potatoes. n 1825, the Japanese government reaf ! its Na- tional Seclusion Policy originally enacted in 1639. Simply stated, “Don't dare come here.” Except for the Dutch who enjoyed a commercial treaty with them, the Japanese warned all ships from western nations, especially whalers whom they felt sailed too close to their shores. In Moby Dick, Ishmael commented, “If that double-bolted1and...is ever to become hospitable, it is the whaleship alone to which the credit will be due...\ Commodore Matthew Perry's entry to Japanese waters in 1853 with an American naval earned him a place in history books. Yet eight years earlier, the Sag Harbor whaleship Manhattan, commanded by Captain Mercator Cooper, entered Later, intending to repair one of his whaleboats, Cooper started lowering it from davits into the water alongside the ship. Thinking the Americans were planning to go ashore, the Japanese guards immediately drew swords, their of declaring they would be slain and his own head would be in danger. But once he understood Cooper's ordinary purpose, he ordered his men to help with the work. The Emperor sent the Sag Harbor captain \wood water, rice, rye in the grain, vegetables...and some crock- ery of the lacquered ware of the country.” A 1912 edition of Southampton Magazine said the japa- nese also sent aboard a quantity of giant radishes. Emis- saries told Cooper that the Emperor thought well of his “heart\ and want- ed him treated kindly, but added he “must not come again.” It was early spring and Cooper ad- mired what he could see of the japa- nese mainland, every acre highly cultivated, the steeper areas terraced, presenting the appearance of hanging gardens. Cooper described the people as “short, square-built and solid... of a light, olive comp1exion...intelli- gent, polite and educated.” Common citizens wore wide trousers and loose, blue cotton shirts, while dignitaries “were clothed in rich silks, embroi- dered with gold and silken threads of various colors.\ The Japanese were par- ticularly curious about the woolen gar- ments of the Americans and requested small samples to take ashore. The 1962 Christmas Dec- orations Committee met to formulate plans for beau- tifying our Village Main Street for the Holidays. Meeting in the Municipal Building last Thursday night the preliminary de- tails were discussed. Mrs. Dorothy Fick agreed to act again as Treasurer for the Committee and all contri- butions should be mailed to her. And when Richard died. he did not forget Crema- na and his-children. In 1745 records show a transfer of 198 acres from Richard to his beloved Cre- mona and his kids. In an extract -of Richard Mor- rey’s last will and testament he pointedly says “my negro woman Cremona Morrey will be left 198 acres.” Joseph T. King, Jr.. of Noyac was pleasantly sur- prised when four of his friends from Brooklyn drove out Sunday and had dinner with him. Dancing was enjoyed by all. It takes the city steppers to do the “Shag\and “Big Apple.\ My family can be traced because of meticulous record keeping and open- ness and fairness. Jeddo (later Tokyo) Harbor and spent several days in sometimes friendly, An interpreter told sometimes threatening Contact with the Japanese. The incident is wonderfully de- tailed in an article byC.F; Winslow in Cooper that no one was allowed off the ship under pain of death, “drawing a 25 Years Ago November 12, 1981 I-low unusual was it for an African American woman to be left that kind of acreage by a white man in the nth century? My family can be traced because of meticulous record keeping and openness and fairness. There's nothing hid- den when you leave 198 acres to your lady in colonial America. It's unheard of. The Friend, a newspaper published in Honolulu in February, 1846. Dr. Win- slow, a missionary, interviewed Cap- tain Cooper when Manhattan stopped in Hawaii. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mansir have been taking a motor trip to Washington, D.C., and into Virginia. They visited the restored Colonial capitol of Wil- liarnsburg. Va.. and enjoyed the beautiful old city thor- oughly. A public hearing was held November 4 at the Mu- nicipal Building on Main Street, Sag Harbor on the subject of a county take- over of the sewer plant of Sag Harbor. The of outnumbered the public 10-6, as the hearing opened with three representatives from the county present to answer questions. In April 1845, Manhattan was sailing towards the whaling regions of the northern Paci Ocean when it passed naked sword across the throat.” uninhabited St. Peter’s Island south- west ofjapan. Captain Cooper decided to go ashore to look for turtles to pro- It sounds like your mother knew a great deal about 50 Years Ago November 15, 1962 her iamily. but you uncovered details going further back. Why is this history so important? Ours is not a nationally known story. It’s known region- ally in Newjersey and Pennsylvania. In 2010, on the 300th anniversary of Cremona’s birth, the town of Cheltenham issued a proclamation claiming she was an American through and through. It recognized her as a person. not a statistic. She was a mother and citizen and contributed children to this new world. vide fresh meat for his crew. Walking inland, he discovered eleven, shipwrecked Japanese ermen and, seeing their bedraggled state, offered to take them back to their homeland. On the voyage there, Coo- per came upon a sinking junk and rescued eleven more seamen. Reaching the Japanese coast, he sent ashore a couple of the Castaways to explain to the Emperor his peaceful intentions. As he neared Jeddo Bay, he was met by a barge carrying an of of “rank and consequence\ who told him he had the Emperor's permission to enter the har- bor. Intensely curious about the Americans, a number of Japanese of all ranks. including the Governor ofjeddo and officers of the Emperor “arrayed in golden and gorgeous -tunics” came aboard, They were especially fascinated by the Black crewrnen aboard Manhattan, including Pyrrhus Concer and Gad Williams. Using a little English and many gestures, an interpreter told Cooper that no one was al- lowed off the ship under pain of death, “drawing a naked sword across the throat.“ Guards were posted and the Man- hattan’s weapons con while in the harbor. “Nearly a thousand” boats armed with lances and “steel weapons\ ringed the Manhattan as the rescued Japanese seamen bade a tearful farewell to their American saviors. The Governor of jeddo and other of asked about America and Cooper described his country's honorable character and its interest in trade. After four days, the Governor ordered hundreds of sculling boats to tow the Manhattan out to sea where Cooper spread his sails and continued the hunt for whales in the northern ocean. Months later, homeward bound, Manhattan sold her car- go of oil and whalebone in Amsterdam, Holland. The last entry in the ship’s log read. “Cruise 2 yrs, 11 mos, 5 days.\ The Japanese sailors inadvertently left aboard the Man- hattan a detailed chart of japan and a notebook depicting the Empire's heraldry, an error if discovered that could have cost them their heads. The indefatigable Mercator Cooper brought these priceless mementos home and some years later his descendants donated them to the New Bed- ford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts. Cooper's South- ampton residence still stands, serving now as an annex to The Rogers Memorial Library. Ljames McMahon. Mayor of Sag Harbor, do hearby proclaim. Saturday. Novem- ber 24”‘, 1962, as HOSPITAL DAY, and do hereby urge all residents of Sag Harbor to assist in whatever way they can and to give in whatever amounts they can afford to assure the successful com- pletion of this needed civic improvement. Plans are going ahead and tickets are being sold for the Sag Harbor Village Improvement Society open house tour scheduled for December 26. For the time, the Huntting House, better known as the Sag Harbor Whaling and His- torical Museum, will be open for the occasion. The fact is they were free. They didn't have that con- straint so they could pursue other crafts, interests and tal- ents. And they passed them along generationally. i know research is a lot of work, but I get the sense you're actually having a great time following the trails of your family's history. Not everyone has the op- portunity to work with the US Olympic Committee. Sport management student Claude Rozzi jumped at the chance to intern at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, and loved every minute of it. For Noyackers interested in attending the Noyac Civic Council’s Christmas Party: the annual event will be held at the Legion Club- house this year on Satur- day, Dec. 8. A buffet supper will be served, and there That's what's fun - the tendrils and avenues of explora- tion are endless. I'm enlisting my son in this effort. Our thought is this is a wonderful PBS story. I want to get it lined up as far back as we can go. I'm going to Paris in April to try and track down the Morrey records. Documents in hand is when historians go crazy. It’s our personal story and it could be fairly rare. JIM MAIIQIIAIDT lives and writes in Noyac. HENRY To all Henry's friends: Henry was an extremely unique dog. He was our PR man at Henry Persan & Sons Hardware. He had his own friends. Many of you loved him, we know that he loved you back. Henry would be over- joyed when he heard ”Wanna go to the store?” He would jump in the car by himself and would know exactly where we were going by the time we came across Long Beach. At home he was a gentle, affectionate, family dog. He was always there to give a big kiss when you were feeling down. He was a persistent runaway, and’ would frequently go to certain houses, with certain dogs, people, or a pool party! A big thank you to all who al- ways called when he ran to your house, we really appre~ ciate it. Henry had some very special friends. We will miss him dearly. will offer its famous 333 PRIX FIXE THREE-COURSE DINNER WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY 10%OFF BOTTLES OF WINE OR $9 PER GLASS OPEN FOR DINNER WEDNESDAY \THROUGH SUNDAY AT 6 PM OPEN FOR LUNCH SATURDAY &: SUNDAY AT 12 CHILDREN'S MENU AVAILABLE CLOSED MONDAY & TUESDAY TUTTO IL GIORNO 6 BAY S'nu3p;r - SAG HARBOR [Acnoss mom MARINHMRK] ' 72457009‘ 1
