Jamestown Rediscovery:
Visitors Center has
over 1,000 artifacts of the nearly 2 million discovered since the
1930s
World renowned
Archaerium has over 4,000 artifacts on exhibit.
Jamestown Rediscovery
website
Website has information
on the Jamestown Biographies Project
has information
on more than 1500 settlers available for download for $4.95/each. Free sample on Jeffrey
Abbott.
Also mentioned are some
useful books for documented lineages:
John Frederick Dorman –
Adventurers of Purse and Person, 1607-1624, 3 volumes
Martha
McCartney – Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, A Biographical Dictionary,1607-1635
Both
are available at the Cocoa Library Genealogy Department.
Archaeologist William
Kelso's book Jamestown: The Buried Truth
Intro – p. 4 -
Kelso's first look at Jamestown in 1963
Chapter 1 – Review
of documentary evidence
6 first person
accounts and 2 maps, 1 Spanish & 1 Dutch
p.9 Quote by George
Percy Lt. Gov. 1609
p. 10 paintings of
Percy and John Smith
Chapter 2 –
Rediscovery of James Fort 1994-2005
Chapter 3 –
Discovery of Burials
Chapter 4 –
Examination of Artifacts
Chapter 5 –
Examination of places where representative government began
Book 2 by Kelso –
Jamestown: The Truth Revealed
Out in paperback in
April 2019
Also in a April 2019 –
Opening of new exhibits at Jamestown in the 1906 church
Covers 5 burials found
in the church:
Ferdanando Weyman d
1610 age 34, uncle of Gov Sir Thomas West
Capt. William West d
1610 killed by indians
Capt. Gabriel Archer, d
1609, age 34 Starving Time
Rev. Robert Hunt, d
1608 age c39
Most recently – Sir
George Yeardley – died 1627, age 40
Deputy Governor of
Virginia in 1616
Governor of Virginia
in 1618
formed the first
General Assembly which met in July 1619
Archaeology and
genealogy came together in identification
DNA from descendants
used
The church will be the
site of new exhibits for
the American
Evolution Commemoration
designed to describe
the events of 1619 and
the beginning of
representational government in the United States.
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