Hello List, Would anyone know where I might find information/records on a confederate soldier who was in a Richmond, VA hospital in 1865? Thank you, Lyn Magill-Hoch Albuquerque, NM

Hi all, My Missing Virginia Deaths, 1897-1912 website now has 2, 935 deaths on it. http://www.vagenealogy.homestead.com/vadths1897.html The state of Virginia did not keep records or deaths from 1897-June 13th of 1912 so I decided awhile back to do research and compile some as I find the time and place them on the internet. This site is part of my Miscellaneous Virginia Genealogy website at: http://vagenealogy.homestead.com/ I hope that you find some ancestors on these sites. God bless, Beth [email protected]

>>>>>>JAMES CITY -- The Godspeed replica ship at Jamestown Settlement is 20 years old and, apparently, has passed its prime. I remember that these three replicas at Jamestown were built and on hand about 1957 in time for the commemoration of the 350 anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. The Queen of England and her husband came over for the celebration. Perhaps a second set of replicas were built after that, and now the plan calls for a 3rd set? H. Fisher Yazoo City, Mississippi PS Is it likely that the same Queen will be over for the 400th anniversary?

A nexus of history -Archaeologists have traced the history of the site from its early Colonial glory to the disastrous Civil War fire. BY MARK ST. JOHN ERICKSON 247-4783 Published October 16, 2004 HAMPTON -- Four feet down and 137 years back in time, archaeologists are probing through the remains of one of the most catastrophic chapters in this old Virginia town's long history. Bent over on their hands and knees, they scrape at the soil relentlessly with their trowels, uncovering molten chunks of glass, scorched stone thresholds and charred expanses of brick. On Aug. 7, 1861, Confederate soldiers set more than 100 houses and 30 businesses ablaze in order to keep the picturesque town of Hampton from falling into the hands of the Union forces at nearby Fort Monroe. But much of what they destroyed in this self-inflicted inferno had roots that went back far deeper than the Civil War. Monday night at the Hampton History Museum, archaeologists, who began digging in mid-August, will give an informal public presentation about what they've found. In two months, they have discovered the largely intact basement of an 18th-century structure that once fronted a prime part of South King Street. Around and beneath this feature lie the remains of even earlier buildings that may date back as far as the mid-1600s. Evidence of late-19th- and early-20th-century structures cut across the site, too, testifying to the dense, unusually rich history of a town that postdates the founding of Jamestown by only three years - and which has survived more than three centuries longer. "It's the kind of complexity that you'd expect in an urban area as old as Hampton," said Hank Lutton, project archaeologist for the James River Institute for Archaeology. "You get tantalizing portions of features from many different time periods - all cutting through one another. "But what we're so surprised by is the degree of preservation that we're finding as we work through these features. In many ways, a site this well-preserved is an anomaly." So unspoiled is the state of the archaeological evidence here that the scientists discovered the basement steps late last spring after digging a test trench less than a foot below the surface. Soon the size and potential of the 18-foot-deep building made it the primary focus of the excavation, Lutton said. Among the most unusual objects archaeologists found is an 18th-century ceramic pipe bowl formed in the shape of a monkey's head. They have also recovered a trio of mid-19th-century children's marbles and an 18th-century shell-edge serving platter. Numerous brass uniform buttons have emerged from the rubble, too, underscoring the importance of the town to troops on both sides of the Civil War. Still more evocative than the emblems from New York, Massachusetts and Georgia, however, is a pair of rare examples embossed with the image of the Hampton Military Academy. "They drilled right over there where the Mill Point condos are," said curator Mike Cobb of the Hampton History Museum. "But very, very few of these buttons have ever been found in Hampton." Equally important is the light the Settlers Landing Road dig has shed on the way Hampton's landscape has evolved over the past 400 years. Though the rear of this 18th-century lot once backed onto an inlet from the Hampton River, subsequent years and nearly four feet of fill have left this former waterfront property completely landlocked for longer than anyone can remember. "People don't realize how dramatically the landscape here has changed," said Lutton, describing how the evidence unearthed at the Settlers Landing has linked with previous archaeological studies of the existing waterfront conducted during the 1980s. "The inlet that used to run across the back of this lot was filled in," he said. "The gradual slope down to the water was leveled as much as two to four feet. And we're finding evidence that King Street may have shifted to the west as much as five or six feet over the years." Back when the earliest structures were constructed on this site, he added, it may have been the leading edge of Hampton's high ground. That would have made it a prime piece of real estate between about 1690 and 1710 - the historic era of development that confirmed the town's pivotal role as colonial Virginia's most important port. "That period really hasn't been studied the way that it should," Lutton said, "and it's one of the things that makes this site so exciting. This was the time when places like Williamsburg, Yorktown and Hampton really began to change from loosely settled areas into towns with well-defined grids - and it had a tremendous impact on the landscape. It would have been a fascinating time in the lives of the people here." ------------------------------------------ Goodbye, 'New World' BY MIKE HOLTZCLAW 928-6479 October 16, 2004 "The New World" won't be with us much longer. Writer-director Terrence Malick has been filming his historical epic (about the founding of Jamestown) in the Williamsburg area since mid-summer, but his cast and crew will be done with their work here by sometime next week. With that in mind, here's one last look at Our Summer of Colin Farrell: When will they be done here? Michael Singer, the on-set publicist, says Malick expects to be finished here by the early or middle part of next week. The crew arrived early in the summer to begin preparing the set, and filming began in July. After Malick and the actors move on, many crew members will remain behind for a few weeks to take down the set and tie up any loose ends. When they are done here, Malick and his troupe will head across the ocean for a short period of filming in England. Then it will be on to post-production - the elaborate editing process and the work combining the film's various visual and sound elements. The film is not expected to hit theaters until the 2005 holiday season. Has the local shoot gone as planned? It seems so. There have been no stories popping up in the Hollywood press suggesting that the film is either behind schedule or over budget. The Jamestown set was shut off to the public, and though the James River remained mostly open to boaters, Singer said the crew had little problem with gawkers in canoes. Singer also said the cast and crew spoke highly of the hospitality shown to them by everyone they encountered in the area. Did the stars mingle much with local folks? Quite a bit, actually. The biggest star, of course, is Colin Farrell. Fans, mostly female, were always on the lookout for him and he was apparently very willing to oblige them. Therefore, seemingly dozens of photos are circulating through the area by e-mail showing Farrell - with long hair, shaggy beard and open shirt - posing with a woman on each arm. Farrell and co-stars such as Christopher Plummer and Christian Bale were frequent customers at establishments such as Pints and Pipes, a Scottish-style pub on Richmond Road where they tipped back Guinness and ate shepherd's pie. They also ate regularly at J.M. Randall's on Longhill Road, Cornerstone Grill & Bar on Richmond Road, and the Fat Canary at Merchants Square. Many local eateries (and drinkeries) saw a noticeable increase in business as fans hung out waiting to see if the movie stars showed up. One day, the folks at AMC Hampton Towne Centre 24 got a treat when several members of the cast and crew used that theater to view their "dailies" - the first look at the raw footage shot that day. Malick and his camera crew generally used a rented projector for that task, but one day they were not satisfied with the image quality and they arranged to use the Hampton theater. How many local people ended up in the movie? We won't know for sure until the film actually comes out, because scenes can be shortened or cut altogether. But dozens of local residents were cast as extras in the film. They are not allowed to discuss specific details of their experience, but many of them have spoken in general terms about having fun being part of a big Hollywood production. George Fenigsohn of Poquoson and his son Ben spent a week in August as extras aboard a tall ship. "We were impressed by the professionalism and friendliness of everyone we met," George Fenigsohn said. "The makeup and costume people were very thorough, and Terrence Malick is both demanding and intent on perfection." Will there be other local touches in the film? Sure. And not just the Jamestown locale, either. A lot of local people and businesses that deal in antiques and furniture ended up loaning or renting props to the production. A lot of the "period" furniture and equipment in the film was procured in that way, as Malick and his set designers strove for as much accuracy as possible The filmmakers also struck a deal with the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation to use three replica ships - the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant. They used the ships on a staggered schedule so that one or more of the replica ships would always remain available to visitors at the Jamestown Settlement. The film crew paid an estimated $177,000 for the use of the ships; they painted the ships to give them a more weathered appearance, and promised to return them to their original condition when filming was done. ---------------------------- Godspeed copy to cost $2.64M -A bigger and lower-maintenance replica should set sail in 2006 in Jamestown Settlement. BY APRIL TAYLOR 223-5685 Published October 16, 2004 JAMES CITY -- The Godspeed replica ship at Jamestown Settlement is 20 years old and, apparently, has passed its prime. The replica ship has become so expensive to maintain, according to officials at the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, that they've hired a company in Rockport, Maine, to build a new one for $2.64 million. The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation is a state-run agency that operates Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Battlefield. Replicas of the three ships that brought English settlers to Virginia in 1607 - the Godspeed, the Susan Constant and the Discovery - are popular with the half-million visitors who trek to the historic site annually. "We looked at the remaining service life of the vessel," said Eric Speth, maritime program manager for the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. "We determined that it would be more cost beneficial for us to replace it rather than continue to repair it." The new three-masted wooden sailing ship will be delivered to Jamestown Settlement by mid-April 2006, in time for the ship to sail along the East Coast to kick off the Jamestown 2007 commemoration. Officials have had to replace much of the planking on the Godspeed as well as the Discovery replica ship in recent years. A new replica of the Discovery, the smallest of the Jamestown ships, is set for 2007. The Susan Constant, which was commissioned in 1991, will not be replaced, officials say. Look for the new version of the Godspeed to be larger than the existing one: Historians have discovered that the current size of the Godspeed is too small. The only information historians had to go on came from explorer John Smith, whose writings indicated a 40-ton cargo capacity for the original Godspeed. The cargo-carrying capacity of the ship relates directly to the size of the ship, Speth said. Now, "we have the benefit of more information on ship design from treatises that were not available to the designers in the 1950s," Speth said. "It's this advance in historical research that allows us to create a much more accurate version." The overall length of the new replica will be 88 feet, compared with 68 feet for the current Godspeed ship. The ship's beam, or width, will be 17 feet, about two feet wider than the existing vessel. The mainmast will be 14 feet taller than the current one. "The profile of the vessel will look different, longer and leaner than the formal versions, and the interior will have a larger cargo hold space," Speth said. The latest version of the Godspeed is the third replica since 1957, when Jamestown Settlement opened as Jamestown Festival Park (the name changed to Jamestown Settlement in 1990). The second replica was designed in 1984, by Tri-Coastal Marine of Richmond, Calif. The cost of the new ship was first estimated at $1.6 million - as opposed to $2.64 million - before the research on the size and design of the ship had been complete. Gifts, grants and state funds are paying for most of the project. The new Godspeed will be built using hardwoods instead of softwoods. Bronze fasteners and modern sealants and coatings will be used to ensure a longer service life and lower maintenance costs, officials say."We believe that this new ship will be more durable and require less cost over time for its maintenance," Speth said.

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, September 20, 1906 MRS. ELIZABETH FISHER died at the home of her daughter, MRS. JOHN MCMAINS, in Derby, Sept. 6, 1906.  MRS. FISHER was born in Virginia, Nov. 12, 1817. She was united in marriage to MACOMUS FISHER in 1849, and came to Iowa in 1855, where she lived until her death.  To MR. and MRS. FISHER were born six children, JACKSON FISHER of Woodburn MRS. ELIZABETH LOWELL of Boston, Mass.;  MRS. SARAH ROACH; EMMA VINN and HENRY FISHER of Corning, Iowa; and MRS. RACHEL MCMAINS of Derby. MRS. FISHER united with the United Brethren Church at the age of 15.  She was 89 years, 10 months and 6 days. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. John Harned at the home of her daughter, MRS. MCMAINS.  The remains were laid to rest in the Fisher Burial Ground.  The community extends sympathy to the bereaved ones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert November 3, 2004 [email protected] http://www.rootsweb.com/~ialucas/Main.htm posted at this site with Nancee's permission

Looking for the parents of Mary LANDACRE bn 7 Jan 1805 in Virginia died 15 Jan 1872 Delaware County Ohio. She was married 1825 in Hardy County WVA to Joseph R. CORBIN, bn 29 Dec 1802 in Culpeper County VA died 23 Oct 1884. Pat

Can anyone PLEASE help with locating any information on the following and hopefully a male descendant of the following COOPER line from Virginia? Virginia patents and grants, as well as several other records suggest that a Fleet COOPER, most likely was born in southeastern Virginia. It could be that he was the same Fleet COOPER of NANSEMOND COUNTY, VA, who sold land along the Blackwater River on 9 Mar 1757 which he purchased in Feb 1745. There also is record of a Fleet COOPER living in ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY, VA, who was fined by the Court 19 February 1718 for failing to attend church. Also in ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY a Fleet COOPER witnessed the will of Robert BRIGHT on 19 Jan 1723/23. In 1645 or 1646 the SW portion of ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY became NANSEMOND COUNTY. Possibly these two Fleet COOPERs living fairly close related. Earlier Virginia records link the "widow FLEET" and a Jno. COOPER and his wife as grantors in a 1675 GLOUCHESTER COUNTY deed. This indicates a possible FLEET and COOPER connection. Other YORK COUNTY, VA, records indicate connections between a widow, Anne FLEETE, and John COOPER, her attorney. These documents were recorded between 1665 and 1672. Regards, Gary [email protected]

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Looking for information/connections of THURSTON families who first settled in Albemarle County, Virginia. Elmore/Elmer THURSTON c 1852 m Dora D. WOOD. They were blessed with 9 children 8 of whom lived. Waverly THURSTON m Lutie HICKS; Sadie THURSTON m John WOOD; ROY THURSTON m Mary Jane (Jenye) MCALLISTER; Guy THURSTON m Virgila (?); Russell THURSTON m Louise THOMAS; Gladys THURSTON m Tucker GARRISON; Hugh THURSTON m Helen MORRIS. Some of the other names associated with this line include, but not limited to, MCCAULEY, CLARK, REED, BLAKE, etc. Some of the areas include, Crozet, Whitehall and eventually Maryland. Please contact Walton J. Sullivan at [email protected]

Looking for suggestions/comments as I am trying to find information on James GARLAND MCALLISTER b 1838 who served in the Confederacy. He was born and lived in Albermarle County, VA. Please contact Walton J. Sullivan at [email protected] Thank you in advance for ur help.

Looking for information/connections James GARLAND MC ALLISTER b1838 in Albermarle County, VA. He married Susan F. MCALLISTER and they had a least one child Henry F. MC ALLISTER b 1858 Albermarle. In 1893 Henry married Fannie Jane MCALLISTER b 1862 in Albermarle, Co. Henry and Fannie Jane were cousins. Henry died in 1946 and Fannie in 1940. During the Civil War James GARLAND MCALLISTER served with the Confederate Army. Other names associated with the line include, but are not limited to, THURSTON, WOOD, MCCAULEY, MORRIS, HALL, Please contact Walton J. Sullivan at [email protected]

Hi list I am looking for the county that Albert L. Johnson died in on Oct. 5, 1974. I got this for SSDI and all it said was he died in VA. He was born Nov. 15, 1898. Can anyone help me? Thank you Marcena NM

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----- Original Message ----- From: bdflanigan To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 11:37 AM Subject: John Flanigan I am researching John Flanigan b.1798 in Virginia, d. 31 Dec.1855, married Elizabeth (?) b. 1813 d. 1 Oct. 1838. There was a second marriage to Rachel (?) b. 1816 d. 20 Nov. 1850 (she was born in Ohio). Does anyone have any information for this family? I believe his parents were born in Delaware. Thank you, Beverly

Nena, WOW!! What a GREAT Article. Thank you for sharing it. As some of Ron's ancestors lived in Jamestown, VA. Joy From: "Nena Smothers" <[email protected]> Date: 2004/10/06 Wed AM 01:17:29 PDT To: [email protected] Subject: [VIRGINIA] Jamestown update1 Secrets revealed BY MARK ST. JOHN ERICKSON 247-4783 October 3 2004 Archaeologists faced a giant obstacle this past spring when they began their annual dig in search of historic Jamestown. After nine years of increasingly focused excavations, they'd finally located the elusive west wall of the triangular fort - and they knew which direction to go in their hunt for the colony's center. But between them and the heart of America's first permanent English settlement, an immense Civil War earthwork rose as much as 10 feet above the ground. Six months later, the archaeologists of the Jamestown Rediscovery project - led by director Bill Kelso - have removed and sifted through thousands of cubic feet of soil. They've recovered some 20,000 artifacts as they've labored, filling nearly 50 storage boxes with well-stuffed, carefully labeled bags of relics from the time of Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas. Equally impressive, however, are the secrets they've coaxed from the stones and stains in the dirt - including the footprint of a building so large and well-built that it has completely dashed previous theories about how the inside of the fort looked. "What's beneath those earthworks is clearly going to be the best-preserved part of James Fort - and it's the heart of the fort," says senior staff archaeologist Eric Deetz, who has supervised much of the fieldwork this summer. We can now say that the surface we're standing on today is the same surface the settlers were standing on circa 1610. Nowhere else in the fort have we been able to say that. And the stuff that's been coming up with the earthwork fill has been so fantastic that no one ever complains about the work it takes to remove it." Constructed in April 1861 as the waterfront anchor of a defensive line, the Confederate earthwork - known as Fort Pocahontas - never saw action during the Civil War. Manned for barely a year, its primary claim to fame came from its use as a testing ground for the armor that sheathed the sides of the ironclad CSS Virginia. Despite meticulous attention from the archaeologists, less than a handful of artifacts have emerged from this short period of occupation - not including the rugged iron spikes used to nail together the timbers of a gun platform. Yet not long after removing a layer of fill used to dress up the earthwork during the early 1900s, Kelso and Deetz realized that the Civil War laborers had constructed the stronghold with artifact-laden dirt from the time of William Shakespeare. So rich was the soil with early 17th-century artifacts that a test square measuring 10-by-10-feet in size took nearly six weeks to explore. And though the original archaeological context of those artifacts had been destroyed - reducing some of their value as evidence - their intimate connection to the first years of the English settlement continued to make them important. "There are areas to the east of the Confederate earthwork where we have found absolutely nothing - where the ground was scraped clean - and we couldn't figure out where it had all gone," Deetz says. "Now we know." Defying common practice, the archaeologists elected to screen all the displaced soil for artifacts rather than restricting their investigation to targeted samples. That decision meant countless hours of extra work as they removed and carefully sifted through the huge mounds of sandy clay. It also added to the dizzying stream of artifacts coming from the fort's west bulwark trench, where the dig had turned up an unusually large and fertile trash deposit dating to the settlement's earliest years. With the arrival of some 20 students for the project's summer field school, the volume grew even more, prompting the archaeologists to design and build an extra-capacity, electrically powered screener. "We had to have it. There was just too much material to go through," Kelso says. "But we were rewarded with a prize every week - and sometimes every day. So all the trouble has been worth it." Curator Bly Straube and conservators Michael Lavin and Dan Gamble had to shift their attention, too, in order to handle the volume of artifacts coming in from the field. Though most of the objects were stored for treatment and study at a later date, many were so provocative or curious that they required immediate attention - forcing Lavin and Gamble, in particular, to juggle their work on 750 other artifacts being conserved for a new $5 million, 7,500-square-foot exhibit. "Some of what we're finding is unique. We're seeing marvelous things that we haven't seen before - things that can really tell us a story," Straube says. "But because they're not all coming from a tightly dateable context, we're having to date them by art historical research and other methods instead. And it can take a lot of time to search through those sources." Among the most compelling discoveries pulled from the earthwork fill is a group of religious artifacts that includes a scratch-carved jet crucifix, a medallion bearing the likeness of St. Hyacinth and a wax seal decorated with the scallop shell of St. James of Compostela. Such potent emblems of Catholic faith would have been highly unusual at a time when England and Spain were bitter enemies - and Anglican Protestantism was the official and often strictly enforced religious belief at Jamestown. "I don't know that the answer to this Catholic material is simple. It has a very Spanish feel to it - similar to that found in the Spanish Armada shipwrecks but different from that found at St. Mary's City in Maryland and the Spanish colonial sites in Florida," Straube says. "But we're also finding it in trash deposits instead of in association with religious sites. So it could indicate the presence of Catholics here - or it could represent Catholic material that was being recycled for use by the English as trade items." Beneath the disturbed fill, the archaeologists found another prize - this one far larger and more provocative than anyone suspected. Uncovered first in the form of a few loosely aligned cobblestones, the footprint of Structure 172 - as the feature was cataloged - expanded enormously over time, changing from what looked like a short section of wall into a 167-foot-long, 18-foot-wide building. Running parallel to the fort's west wall, the rowhouselike structure broke down into a series of adjacent rooms as it grew - and soon became the season's primary focus because of its size and historical potential. Numerous double-sided hearths emerged from the soil, too, adding to the building's complexity and importance. Dating as early as 1610, the structure could be part of a massive rebuilding effort that took place that summer - and which included "two faire rowes of houses, all of framed Timber, two stories, and an upper Garret, or Corne loft high...," an eyewitness wrote. "Our goal this year was to come up with some idea of the town plan - to find out what was inside the triangle - and what we found was a huge building on the scale of what was being built as permanent structures in England," Kelso says. "It tells you that the settlement at Jamestown was a serious business. It wasn't just a temporary campsite or trading post - and that's changed the whole picture of what it looked like inside the fort." Much more information could be waiting as the archaeologists sift through the remaining layer of disturbed plowzone above the building's floor and search for the early 17th-century level. There, the surviving artifacts could reveal some of the historic settlement's earliest and most compelling secrets. "As big as it is, it's clear that a good number of the people at Jamestown lived in this structure. So it's very important," Deetz says. "Once it's all uncovered, we'll go in and excavate - sometimes as little as 2 inches - and look for the occupation layer. That will tell us what went on inside - and if it differed from one end of the building to the other." 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Secrets revealed BY MARK ST. JOHN ERICKSON 247-4783 October 3 2004 Archaeologists faced a giant obstacle this past spring when they began their annual dig in search of historic Jamestown. After nine years of increasingly focused excavations, they'd finally located the elusive west wall of the triangular fort - and they knew which direction to go in their hunt for the colony's center. But between them and the heart of America's first permanent English settlement, an immense Civil War earthwork rose as much as 10 feet above the ground. Six months later, the archaeologists of the Jamestown Rediscovery project - led by director Bill Kelso - have removed and sifted through thousands of cubic feet of soil. They've recovered some 20,000 artifacts as they've labored, filling nearly 50 storage boxes with well-stuffed, carefully labeled bags of relics from the time of Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas. Equally impressive, however, are the secrets they've coaxed from the stones and stains in the dirt - including the footprint of a building so large and well-built that it has completely dashed previous theories about how the inside of the fort looked. "What's beneath those earthworks is clearly going to be the best-preserved part of James Fort - and it's the heart of the fort," says senior staff archaeologist Eric Deetz, who has supervised much of the fieldwork this summer. We can now say that the surface we're standing on today is the same surface the settlers were standing on circa 1610. Nowhere else in the fort have we been able to say that. And the stuff that's been coming up with the earthwork fill has been so fantastic that no one ever complains about the work it takes to remove it." Constructed in April 1861 as the waterfront anchor of a defensive line, the Confederate earthwork - known as Fort Pocahontas - never saw action during the Civil War. Manned for barely a year, its primary claim to fame came from its use as a testing ground for the armor that sheathed the sides of the ironclad CSS Virginia. Despite meticulous attention from the archaeologists, less than a handful of artifacts have emerged from this short period of occupation - not including the rugged iron spikes used to nail together the timbers of a gun platform. Yet not long after removing a layer of fill used to dress up the earthwork during the early 1900s, Kelso and Deetz realized that the Civil War laborers had constructed the stronghold with artifact-laden dirt from the time of William Shakespeare. So rich was the soil with early 17th-century artifacts that a test square measuring 10-by-10-feet in size took nearly six weeks to explore. And though the original archaeological context of those artifacts had been destroyed - reducing some of their value as evidence - their intimate connection to the first years of the English settlement continued to make them important. "There are areas to the east of the Confederate earthwork where we have found absolutely nothing - where the ground was scraped clean - and we couldn't figure out where it had all gone," Deetz says. "Now we know." Defying common practice, the archaeologists elected to screen all the displaced soil for artifacts rather than restricting their investigation to targeted samples. That decision meant countless hours of extra work as they removed and carefully sifted through the huge mounds of sandy clay. It also added to the dizzying stream of artifacts coming from the fort's west bulwark trench, where the dig had turned up an unusually large and fertile trash deposit dating to the settlement's earliest years. With the arrival of some 20 students for the project's summer field school, the volume grew even more, prompting the archaeologists to design and build an extra-capacity, electrically powered screener. "We had to have it. There was just too much material to go through," Kelso says. "But we were rewarded with a prize every week - and sometimes every day. So all the trouble has been worth it." Curator Bly Straube and conservators Michael Lavin and Dan Gamble had to shift their attention, too, in order to handle the volume of artifacts coming in from the field. Though most of the objects were stored for treatment and study at a later date, many were so provocative or curious that they required immediate attention - forcing Lavin and Gamble, in particular, to juggle their work on 750 other artifacts being conserved for a new $5 million, 7,500-square-foot exhibit. "Some of what we're finding is unique. We're seeing marvelous things that we haven't seen before - things that can really tell us a story," Straube says. "But because they're not all coming from a tightly dateable context, we're having to date them by art historical research and other methods instead. And it can take a lot of time to search through those sources." Among the most compelling discoveries pulled from the earthwork fill is a group of religious artifacts that includes a scratch-carved jet crucifix, a medallion bearing the likeness of St. Hyacinth and a wax seal decorated with the scallop shell of St. James of Compostela. Such potent emblems of Catholic faith would have been highly unusual at a time when England and Spain were bitter enemies - and Anglican Protestantism was the official and often strictly enforced religious belief at Jamestown. "I don't know that the answer to this Catholic material is simple. It has a very Spanish feel to it - similar to that found in the Spanish Armada shipwrecks but different from that found at St. Mary's City in Maryland and the Spanish colonial sites in Florida," Straube says. "But we're also finding it in trash deposits instead of in association with religious sites. So it could indicate the presence of Catholics here - or it could represent Catholic material that was being recycled for use by the English as trade items." Beneath the disturbed fill, the archaeologists found another prize - this one far larger and more provocative than anyone suspected. Uncovered first in the form of a few loosely aligned cobblestones, the footprint of Structure 172 - as the feature was cataloged - expanded enormously over time, changing from what looked like a short section of wall into a 167-foot-long, 18-foot-wide building. Running parallel to the fort's west wall, the rowhouselike structure broke down into a series of adjacent rooms as it grew - and soon became the season's primary focus because of its size and historical potential. Numerous double-sided hearths emerged from the soil, too, adding to the building's complexity and importance. Dating as early as 1610, the structure could be part of a massive rebuilding effort that took place that summer - and which included "two faire rowes of houses, all of framed Timber, two stories, and an upper Garret, or Corne loft high...," an eyewitness wrote. "Our goal this year was to come up with some idea of the town plan - to find out what was inside the triangle - and what we found was a huge building on the scale of what was being built as permanent structures in England," Kelso says. "It tells you that the settlement at Jamestown was a serious business. It wasn't just a temporary campsite or trading post - and that's changed the whole picture of what it looked like inside the fort." Much more information could be waiting as the archaeologists sift through the remaining layer of disturbed plowzone above the building's floor and search for the early 17th-century level. There, the surviving artifacts could reveal some of the historic settlement's earliest and most compelling secrets. "As big as it is, it's clear that a good number of the people at Jamestown lived in this structure. So it's very important," Deetz says. "Once it's all uncovered, we'll go in and excavate - sometimes as little as 2 inches - and look for the occupation layer. That will tell us what went on inside - and if it differed from one end of the building to the other." Copyright © 2004, Daily Press

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In the March 27, 1910, Sunday Washington Post, there is a picture of and an article about the sale of a colonial Virginia homestead called Selma, near Staunton, VA. The seller was Alfred B. Carter. I am wondering if he was an Alfred Ball Carter, and, if so, what his connection was with my line. I also am interested in whether Selma still stands. I have six generations of Alfred Ball Carters who I have been able to identify back to the Alfred Ball Carter born in 1823 who lived at a place called Cedar Run in Fauquier Co., VA. He was the son of William Fitzhugh Carter who was born in 1782 at Sudley Manor, Prince Wm Co., VA, and Elizabeth Lucy Ball, born at Nomini Hall, Westmoreland Co., VA in 1791. After serving in the 6th VA Cavalry in the Civil War, he received his pension in Shelby Co., TN. He was the grandfather of my grandfather who was born in or near Memphis in 1888. I am not aware of any connection with VA property after the line was established in TN after the Civil War. Please write to me if anyone has information about the places and people I have mentioned. I would love to be able to flesh out the history of these ancestors. Thank you. ====================================== Rebecca D. Yeager-Piazza, Ph.D. mailto:[email protected] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.769 / Virus Database: 516 - Release Date: 9/24/2004