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a. Note:   Begin generation ten * 40c-g10Le7 David10 John Leggett, (John9 M., Milton8 W., William7 T., Thomas6 B., William5 H., Thomas4, Thomas3, Gabriel2, Gabriel1)
 born January 15, 1961
 married June 13, 1992 to Julia Hsiang-ning Chu in Washington, DC
 born March 3, 1965 in Peking, China
 Children (Leggett) 3: 2 boys, 1 girl
 13-g11Le7 William11 Haight Showalter
 14-g11Le7 Hannah11 Folger Jenkins
 15-g11Le7 Thomas11 Alexander Scott
  His first home was in Pittsburgh's northern suburb of Allison Park (Surrey Drive), a house the Church of Our Saviour (Episcopal) rented while the church and rectory were being built. With the rectory fininished, in 1963 the family moved into 2405 Clearview Drive in Glenshaw. He attended the R.C. Rogers Elementary School next door, and Millvale Seventh Grade.
  In the fifth grade, he was selected for a five-year weekly program of art courses, supported by the endowment of Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, known as the Tam O'Shanter Art Course, and open to promising art students in Allegheny County. He completed this course of instruction in 1977.
  In 1974, his family moved to 897 East Beau Street, Washington, Penna, when his father took charge of Trinity Episcopal Church on the campus of Washington and Jefferson College. He attended eighth grade at Trinity Middle School and graduated from Trinity High School in 1979. He was a member of the Trinity Concert Choir and the Ensemble, and studied piano for several years with J. Addison Jones of Washington, Penna, (1906-1996), who was a pupil of Emil von Sauer, (1862-1942), who was in turn a pupil of Franz Liszt (1811-1886), and later Patricia Caldwell. He also lettered in track. He became an amateur radio operator in 1978 (call signs: first WB3LOE, then N3ANP and finally, KB1NG).
  Enrolling in Washington and Jefferson College, he graduated in 1983, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with a BA in history, minors in English and Economics. During his college years he sang with the Choir and the Chamber Singers, under the direction of Larry Marietta. During January intersessions, he participated in study tours to New York City (1980), Mexico (1981), the USSR and Finland (1982), Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Italy and England (1983).
  After college, he entered the Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, Penna, graduating in 1986. While in law school, he was a member of the Dickinson College Choir and the Chamber Choir under the direction of Truman Bullard, and the Collegium Musicum under J. Forrest Posey. He was also a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, Carlisle, where he sang in the choir. During college and law school summers, he worked on Nantucket Island at the Hither Creek Boat Yard, then doing landscaping and finally at Marine Home Center.
  In the summer of 1986, he stayed with Mr. and Mrs. William Woodring, former Glenshaw, Penna. neighbors then residing in Westborough, Mass., who hosted him while he studied for the Massachusetts Bar Examinination. Passing same, he was sworn in in Faneuil Hall, Boston in December of that year. His cousin Dorothy (Corbett) Wertz was present. A summer resident of Nantucket Island since birth, he moved to the Island year 'round immediately following the bar exam. There he spent four years renovating the summer house, adding a new dining room, kitchen, boathouse, windows and numerous other improvements. While on Nantucket, he also did carpentry restoration work on many of the historic buildings of Nantucket Town. He did some legal work and served for two years on the Nantucket Zoning Board of Appeals. He sang with the Nantucket Chamber Music Center Chorus under Barbara Elder, and was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, also singing in the choir as he had every summer since 1972. In 1988, during his fifth reunion at W&J, he accepted an invitation from a professor who had led the tour to the USSR in 1982, to go to China, with a tour in January 1989, flying via Tokyo and Osaka to Tientsin, Peking, Sian, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangchou, Guilin, Hong Kong and Macao. In Sian, he met Julia Hsiang-ning Chu of Peking, in town on business with her job at Textron Lycoming.
  In January 1991, David moved to Washington, D.C, co-renting a house at 3501 North 21st Avenue in Arlington, while working for a lobbying firm, Bonner & Associates. On 13 June 1992 he married Julia Hsiang-ning Chu, at St. Paul's Parish K Street (Episcopal). They established their household at 2001 North Cleveland Street, Apartment 101, Arlington for a year. In May of 1993, they purchased a townhouse at 1020-263 South Barton Street, Arlington, where they lived for four years, while Julia completed her Master's Degree in International Transactions at George Mason University, graduating in 1996. In July of 1997, they purchased their present house at 2408 North Quantico Street in Arlington. Julia completed another Master's degree, in Library Science, from The Catholic University of America, graduating in 1999. (She has been employed as a librarian by the Library of Congress since 1995.) Their first child, William, was born on 13 November 1999. Meanwhile, they had been renting their townhouse to tenants for four years, in hopes of a recovery in the real estate market. Prices came back nicely, and then some, during late 2000 and early 2001, and they sold their first home in May 2001. Their second child, Hannah, was born on 21 July 2001. Third child, Thomas, came along on 5 July 2003.
  David has been employed by the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture since 1992, and currently works as a legal writer, crafting regulations. Quite involved now in childraising, David in the spring of 2001 had to take a leave of absence from the St. Paul's, K Street Parish Choir, in which he sang since 1991, first under the direction of Mark Conrad and then Jeffrey Smith. Otherwise, for hobbies, he has household improvements and genealogy.
  Family records of the Rev. John M. Leggett
 Personal records of David John Leggett
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  The New York Post, Monday, August 28, 2000
  FAMILY HISTORY SHOWS BRONX AS RURAL PARADISE
  By GERSH KUNTZMAN
  DAVID LEGGETT, who makes his living writing regulations for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, journeyed from Virginia to Hunts Point the other day to check out his old neighborhood.
 Now, Leggett never lived in Hunts Point, but a long time ago, his family owned some land in that section of The Bronx.
  Actually, all of it - a 10,000-acre estate that covered most of current-day Hunts Point, from Boston Road down to the East River.
  Today, that estate exists only in Leggett's imagination, fueled by family photos and an extraordinary series of letters his great-grandfather [actually, great-great] wrote shortly before his death a century ago. The letters offer a rare glimpse of life in Hunts Point - from the days [following quote refers to the 1760s] when Indians used to stop by demanding food ("They would stand about as still and straight as young pine trees and wait until food was brought to them") all the way to the Civil War 200 [actually, 100] years later. [200-year reference is the time the estate existed, roughly 1660s to the 1860s.]
  "So extensive were [the grounds]," Thomas Bogart Leggett wrote in May 1892, looking back on his childhood on the estate 60 years earlier, "one might roam all day through the woods and fields without going off the property. The nearest village was three miles away."
 Where tenements, bodegas and the El Coche go-go bar now stand were Leggett barns, stables, pastures, farm animals and orchards growing "every kind of fruit that would grow in that latitude."
 The family made its fortune not only by working a farm but by selling building supplies as the Big Apple blossomed.
  The centerpiece of the estate was, of course, the manor house, Rose Bank. To read Thomas Leggett's description or to look at 140-year-old photos of the columned, Monticello-like mansion is to enter a world that's hard to envision when you're standing on the corner of Hunts Point and Viele avenues.
  "The house stood in the center of a fine lawn of some 60 acres which extended down to and along the [East] river for quite a distance," Leggett wrote. "The view from the house towards the river was just charming. There was no hour of the day but that sailing vessels of all descriptions were to be seen on this beautiful river."
  Yet today, except for a street named Leggett Avenue, all that's left of this remarkable estate is a small family cemetery a few blocks from the Hunts Point Market. There, the first three generations [Surely two, in my line three, but in one line, six generations] of Leggetts are buried - and it was the first place David Leggett wanted to see during his visit last month.
  "You couldn't really read many of the headstones, thanks to all the acid rain and vandalism over the years," Leggett said. "But it was very emotional to know that this is the only part that's left."
 This part of the tour even made an impact on Leggett's guide, Paul Lipson, who runs The Point, a community center on Garrison Avenue - roughly where some of Rose Bank's cows once grazed.
 "It certainly was emotional to be in that cemetery," said Lipson, whose own family abandoned the hardscrabble neighborhood in the postwar flight to the suburbs. "How many families in this country can walk down a block in New York City and say, 'This is where my ancestors are buried?'"
 More important, Leggett's visit to his family's old stomping ground presented Lipson with a rare chance to broaden his appreciation for Hunts Point's history.
  "Typically, when people in Hunts Point think about their roots, they'd think of Eastern Europe, Africa or Puerto Rico, but here's a guy from Virginia whose roots were here," Lipson said. "It just turns history on its head."
  David Leggett was somewhat disappointed that his three-hour tour of the area did not yield any clues to the one remaining mystery of Rose Bank: How did the Leggett family lose its patrimony - an estate that survived the Revolutionary War and sprawled across much of today's South Bronx for 200 years, only to be dismantled under mysterious circumstances? [Actually, I never figured a cursory tour would disclose this, which most likely is "mysterious" only because we have no knowledge of it. Time-consuming research in courthouse land records would probably make much plain.]
 His great-[great] grandfather - writing his recollections from an apartment building in Harlem years after the estate was lost - says only that "financial difficulties" forced its sale. The family may have been made an offer it couldn't refuse. [Actually, he says nothing of the loss; it is his daughter, my great-great grand aunt, Florence Huggins Leggett, writing in 1902, who says her father was forced to move from the estate, due to "financial difficulties," around 1862.]
  "There was obviously some setback," David Leggett said. "I'd like to think that [after the city annexed The Bronx in 1874], they got a good offer and sold out to irresistible economic forces, but I'm not sure."
  Either way, Leggett says there's a lesson to be learned from the story of his family's rise, decline and fall to the kind of obscurity that leaves even great families with little more than a street named after them.
  "When you think that my family owned all this land and had a huge estate, it shows that the difficulty isn't so much putting it together," he said. "The difficulty is keeping it together."
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  FROM THE 2000-2002 NEW YORK CITY LEGGETT TOMBSTONE PROJECT
 Six granite tablets, a cross, and bronze war service markers
 placed by David John Leggett and John Milton Leggett.
  I. THE OCTAVE OF ALL SAINTS', 2001
 Four 2' x 3' x 4" gravestones in the Bronx, proceeding in historical order: the first in Drake Park, the next two in St. Peter's Church Yard, Westchester, and the last in the William H. Leggett Plot, Woodlawn Cemetery, were placed in November 2001. The four stones were actually placed in reverse order, such being more geographically convenient, the one in Woodlawn on the 5th, and the remaining three on the 6th. These last three were the subject of an article in the New York Post, appearing on 19 November 2001, below;
  II. CHRISTMAS EVE, 2001
 Two smaller reference stones (1' x 2' x4") in the Pittsburgh area, the first in the William T. Leggett / Corbett Plot, Homewood Cemetery, the last in the Joseph Baltzell Showalter / Leggett Plot, North Cemetery, Butler, were placed on the 24th of December, referring to the New York City stones and to each other. They were also placed in reverse order, the North Cemetery stone during a swirling snow squall in the morning, and that in Homewood in the early afternoon.
  III. TRINITYTIDE, 2002
 On 18 July 2002, men from Columbia Gardens Monuments in Arlington, Virginia, drove to New York to place a five-foot cross atop the existing "LEGGETT." monument in the William H. Leggett Plot, Woodlawn Cemetery, inscribed "IHS" at the crossing. This raised the height of the monument to nine feet. The 800 pound weight of this cross, and the work required to join it to the existing 19th century attenuated obelisk, required professional help from Columbia Gardens, which did all the stonework for this project.
  IV. ADVENT 2002
 On 9 December 2002, bronze markers, with flags, to commemorate war service:
  1. An SAR marker at the stone placed last year in Drake Park, Hunt's Point, marking the graves of at least two and possibly four (or more) men of the Revolution:
  John Leggett (1742-1780), Private?, 1st Regiment, Westchester Co., and possibly John's brothers:
  Isaac Leggett (? - 1777), 2d Lieut., 1st Regiment, Westchester Co. (killed in action, Battle of White Plains or Long Island);
  Cornelius (? - b. 1807), Private?, 1st Regiment, Westchester Co.
  Also Gabriel Leggett, 1698-1786, who although an old man at the time, is cited by the DAR's Patriot Index for "patriotic service." "He was turned out of his home at West Farms, his house burned, because he was an old rebel. He went out in the road in front of his house and tried to stop Burgoyne's Army as they marched past."
  2. An SAR marker at the stone placed last year at St. Peter's Church, Westchester, marking the grave of Thomas Leggett (1755-1843), no military unit, who, with some of his brothers, was taken prisoner during the Battle of Saratoga.
  3. GAR markers in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, on the graves of the following relatives of William H. Leggett:
  His son, Francis William Leggett (1833-1907), Private, K 7th N. Y. State Militia and
 Capt., Co., F, 9th Mich. Cav., Co.
 His grandson-in-law, Emerson Foote (1837-1908), Private, Co. K. 7th N. Y. S. M., Inf.
 His grandson-in-law, Charles Dennison Belden (1843-1912), Private, 13th N. Y. National Guard
 and 125th N. Y. Inf.
 His grandnephew, George F. Tiffany (1837-1868), Private, Co. G, 7th N. Y. S. M., Inf.
 His grandnephew, Francis H. Tiffany (1839-1868), Private, 47th N. Y. Inf.
 His grandnephew, Henry Dyer Tiffany (1841-1917), Private, Co. G., 7th N. Y. S. M., Inf.
  V. CHRISTMASTIDE, 2002
 1. [A WWI marker was placed on the grave of William Corbett, husband of Helen Leggett. This replaces one that was apparently twice stolen, as according to their daughter, Dorothy Corbett Wertz, it was there in 1983 when her mother was buried.
  2. [A WWI marker already exists in North Cemetery, Butler, on the grave of Milton William Leggett (1894-1970) ,1st Lt. 5th Tng. Co. U.S. Army.]
  3. [A Korean War marker has been procured as part of this project and will be placed in the North Cemetery to commemorate the service of John Milton Leggett (1931-, Lt. USNR.]
  Inscriptions of the six stones described above:
 .......................................
  LEGGETT
 OF ELY, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND
 AND WEST FARMS (BRONX), NEW YORK.
  IN MEMORY OF
  GABRIEL LEGGETT, 1637 - 1700,
 WHO CAME TO AMERICA IN 1661; HIS WIFE,
  ELIZABETH RICHARDSON, c. 1656 - 1724,
  AND THEIR KINDRED, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN,
 BURIED HERE, INCLUDING THREE SONS:
  JOHN, 1677 - 1707, CICILY HUNT, d. 1732,
 HIS WIFE, AND THEIR DESCENDANTS, INCLUDING SON:
 JOHN, 1700/1 - 1777; HIS WIFE, ANNA HUNT, AND SON:
 JOHN, 1742 - 1780; HIS WIFE, MARY HAVILAND, AND SON:
 EBENEZER, 1763 - 1833; HIS WIFE, MARY, 1769 - 1851,
 AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN:
 CORNELIA, 1792 - 1820, NANCY, 1794 - 1852, AND
 ROBERT, 1797 - 1816.
  THOMAS, 1678 - 1707/8.
  GABRIEL, 1698 - 1786, BRIDGET WILLIAMS,
 HIS FIRST WIFE, AND THEIR DESCENDANTS, INCLUDING SON:
 THOMAS, b. 1721; HIS WIFE, MARY EMBREE, b. 1723, AND FIRST
 WIFE OF THEIR SON THOMAS, 1755-1843, MARY HAIGHT, 1762-1804.
 THIS LINEAGE CONTINUES AT ST. PETER`S, WESTCHESTER,
 THEN WOODLAWN CEMETERY, L. 522-523, S. 9, SPRING LAKE.
  THE NEARBY GRAVES OF FOURTH SON, WILLIAM, 1691-1763,
 AND HIS FAMILY, WERE REMOVED TO ST. PETER`S, 1891.
  A. D. 2001, J. M. L. +
  ........................................
  IN MEMORY OF
  WILLIAM LEGGETT,
 1691-1763,
  HIS FIRST WIFE,
 SARAH LEE,
 1692-1744,
  AND
 SEVEN UNKNOWN
 OF HIS FAMILY,
  WHOSE REMAINS WERE PLACED IN THIS GRAVE
 AFTER REMOVAL FROM THE FAMILY BURYING
 GROUND ON HUNT`S POINT IN MARCH, 1891.
  HIS FATHER, GABRIEL, 1637-1700, AND BROTHERS,
 JOHN, THOMAS AND GABRIEL, REMAIN IN THE OLDER
 BURYING GROUND THERE NOW KNOWN AS DRAKE PARK.
  A. D. 2001, J. M. L. +
  ........................................
  THOMAS LEGGETT
  Born 1st Month 17th 1755
 Died 10th Month 10th 1843
 Aged 88 years 8 months
 & 23 days.
 _______
  HIS FOREFATHERS REST IN THE BURYING GROUND ON HUNT`S POINT NOW KNOWN AS DRAKE PARK;
 SOME DESCENDANTS IN WOODLAWN CEMETERY, LOT NUMBER 522-523, SECTION 9, SPRING LAKE.
  A. D. 2001, J. M. L. +
  .........................................
  LEGGETT
 OF ELY, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND
 AND WEST FARMS (BRONX), NEW YORK.
  GABRIEL b.1545 - 1609 ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, ELY
 THOMAS b.1570 - 1640 ST. MARY`S
 GABRIEL b.1599 - 1657 ST. MARY`S; WARDEN UNDER CROMWELL
 GABRIEL 1637 - 1700 DRAKE PARK, BRONX; TO AMERICA, 1661
 GABRIEL 1698 - 1786 DRAKE PARK
 THOMAS 1721 - a.1781 DRAKE PARK
 THOMAS 1755 - 1843 ST. PETER`S (EPISCOPAL), BRONX
 WILLIAM HAIGHT 1789 - 1863 WOODLAWN, BRONX
 THOMAS BOGART 1823 - 1895 WOODLAWN
 WILLIAM THOMAS 1852 - 1909 HOMEWOOD, PITTSBURGH, PENNA.
 MILTON WILLIAM 1894 - 1970 NORTH, BUTLER, PENNA.
 JOHN MILTON + 1931 - NORTH
 DAVID JOHN 1961 - WOODLAWN
 WILLIAM HAIGHT SHOWALTER 1999 -
  A. D. 2001, J. M. L. +
 .............................................
  LEGGETT
 OF ELY, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND
 AND WEST FARMS, (BRONX), NEW YORK.
  ASCENDANTS: WOODLAWN, BRONX, NEW YORK,
 LOT 522-523, SECTION 9, SPRING LAKE;
  DESCENDANTS: NORTH, BUTLER, PENNA.,
 LOT 21-22, SECTION 18.
  A. D. 2001, J. M. L. +
  .............................................
  LEGGETT
 OF ELY, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND
 AND WEST FARMS, (BRONX), NEW YORK.
  ASCENDANTS: HOMEWOOD, PITTSBURGH, PENNA.,
 LOT 122, SECTION 16;
  DESCENDANTS: WOODLAWN, BRONX, N. Y.,
 LOT 522-523, SECTION 9, SPRING LAKE.
  A. D. 2001, J. M. L. +
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  THE NEW YORK POST
  BRONX'S FADED GLORY LIVES AMID THE DEAD
  By GERSH KUNTZMAN
  [PHOTO]
 [Caption] REST IN PEACE
 David Leggett lays down one of the four new tombstones he had made for the overlooked grave sites of his Bronx ancestors. - Julie Rosenberg
  November 19, 2001 - Metro Gnome
  IT'S sort of hard to picture it when you're standing at the corner of Viele Avenue and Tiffany Street in the South Bronx, but David Leggett can see it all clearly.
  Instead of auto-body shops, petroleum depots and a city sewage pelletization plant, Leggett sees a large, Monticello-like mansion, stables, orchards, fields, forests and meadows that covered the entire area from Hunts Point to Boston Road.
  He sees it because it once was there - and his family owned it. And earlier this month, Leggett, a regulator with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, returned to Hunts Point to make sure it is not forgotten.
  Leggett's trip was the last phase of a multiyear project aimed at identifying and resanctifying the final resting places of his once-prominent family, which included the 63rd mayor of New York, Isaac Leggett Varian, and assorted other rich people who once controlled a massive section of the South Bronx.
  The events of Sept. 11 added a special poignancy to the project.
  "I guess I'm obsessed about marking and remembering things before they're lost forever," Leggett said as he laid new tombstones on several family graves. "And this area has so little of its history left."
  The day began at St. Peter's Church in the Westchester section of The Bronx, where, in 1891, nine members of the Leggett family, who had been buried on the estate almost 200 years earlier, were relocated.
  The graves should not have been disturbed at all, but the Leggett family had lost its fortune - and the Rose Bank mansion that had been its centerpiece - by the end of the 19th century under mysterious circumstances. The new owner, J.L. Spofford, wanted the Leggetts banished. (The joke's on Spofford, though: His name now adorns a juvenile detention center.)
  By the time Leggett reconstructed this part of his family's history, the inscriptions on the gravestones at St. Peter's and at the clan's other burial ground, in Drake Park, a small patch of green that is almost entirely subsumed by the Hunts Point food market, were almost completely unreadable.
  He ordered four new tombstones from a stonecutter in his native Virginia, loaded them into a Ryder truck, and left them in both cemeteries, ensuring that his family would be remembered for another century or so.
  While he has solved the mystery of his family's final resting places, he still has not figured out what social or economic forces drove the Leggetts from The Bronx and forced the sale of the family's massive holdings at the dawn of the 20th century.
  "The only clue is a letter we have in the family that cites 'financial difficulties,' " Leggett said. "I'd like to think that they got a good offer and sold out to irresistible economic forces."
  That would follow a pattern, said Bronx historian Lloyd Ultan. When the city expanded - and annexed The Bronx in 1874 - large landowners sold their farms to reinvest in the booming manufacturing, railroad or steel industries.
  "Some invested it badly, though," Ultan said. "It's like I always say, 'The first generation makes the money, the second generation preserves it, and the third generation squanders it."
  Perhaps, but does any generation willingly tear down a mansion like Rose Bank, with its commanding view of the East River and hundreds of acres of grounds?
  "The idea of historic preservation is very new," Ultan said. "In the early 1900s, people would tear down a house of that magnitude and think nothing of it because it was on the path of `progress.'"
  For Paul Lipson, whose non-profit Point Community Development Corporation nurtures a sense of neighborhood amid some of the worst excesses of urban blight, Leggett's quest to put a final stamp on his family history has a particularly backwards appeal.
  "Most people in this neighborhood come from far away and have left behind centuries of family history, but this guy comes to the Bronx to literally reconnect with his roots," said Lipson, as he accompanied Leggett to Drake Park. "Very few New Yorkers can do that."
  -----Original Message-----
 From: PAUL LIPSON [mailto:paullipson@usa.net]
 Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:01 AM
 To: Leggett, David
 Subject: Re: [RE: [RE: [RE: ]]]
  I think the seller wants $ 30 million for 28 acres (I think 4 acres are underwater at high tide), but right now it's in bankruptcy court because of tax liens held be NYC. Hope to see you soon in the Bx,
  Paul
  "Leggett, David" <David.Leggett@fns.usda.gov> wrote:
  Well, that's good to hear that you have $1mill in Fed money. That's about $1mill more than I have. (Lest you had confused me with someone with money; yeah, I come from old money, money so old it's all gone. Ha Ha.) I'd love to see the place turned into a park named Rose Bank, but I bet it would be named after some politician or corporation or someone who has the deep pockets to exercise "naming rights." Well, better that than its present state, or a power plant. How many acres are there in the Oakpoint site? Just for grins, how much is the land assessed for by the City, or if it's on the market what is being asked?
  David
 -----Original Message-----
 From: PAUL LIPSON [mailto:paullipson@usa.net]
 Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:36 PM
 To: Leggett, David
 Subject: Re: [RE: [RE: ]]
  Actually, purchased by a very unsavory character named David Norkin and used as a giant dump when he couldn't find any other use for it. It's now in the courts since he owes so much in back taxes and is about to lose it to a small energy company that wants to put a power plant there. We're obviously not too thrilled about that. Perhaps the family wants to reassert its ownership rights? Couldn't come at a better time for Hunts Point. We have about $ 1 million from the feds to purchase shoreline easements there so we'd be happy and proud to partner with the Leggetts on this.
  Paul
  "Leggett, David" wrote:
  Well. I didn't know we had granite piers named after us. Yes, this is the site of the main house at Rose Bank, as shown in the photos. Sounds like a nice name for a park there, I think you'd have to reintroduce the roses, which have probably been among the missing for some time. I guess this entire property has been a rail yard for some time and now belongs to CSX?
 -----Original Message-----
 From: PAUL LIPSON [mailto:paullipson@usa.net]
 Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:51 PM
 To: Leggett, David
 Subject: Re: [RE: ]
  I am so sorry. This was done in error. How are you doing? We are working on a land use plan for what's known as the "Oakpoint site"--right across from North Brother Island and adjoining the Leggett Granite Piers. This had to be your ancestral home. We'll keep you posted.
  Paul
  "Leggett, David" wrote:
  Paul, was there meant to be an attachment or something here? I just got a blank message, no subject.
  -----Original Message-----
 From: PAUL LIPSON [mailto:paullipson@usa.net]
 Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 5:31 PM
 To: ...
  Additional material under Julia Hsiang-ning Chu Leggett.


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