Saturday, November 17, 2018

Notes on Jamestown Rediscovery site


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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