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John Harvey served as a member of a royal commission investigating conditions in Virginia in 1624. As a reward, he received land at the east end of New Towne. There he probably built a residence and a wharf.
A temperamental sea captain, Harvey …
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. . . in ye sd Col Swanns Ordinary at James City.Minutes of the General Court, 1677
Although councilman Colonel Thomas Swann resided across the James River at his Swann Point plantation, he also leased a Jamestown tavern that provided accommoda…
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Jackson the smith was at work in his shop . . . Minutes of the General Court, 1623
Protection was of the utmost importance in the early years of Virginia. Gunsmiths like Jamestown resident, assemblyman, and churchwarden John Jackson, were inval…
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In 1934, the National Park Service acquired 1,500 acres of Jamestown Island, including New Towne. Since then, the NPS has used different methods to tell visitors about the town. After archaeologists unearthed numerous structures with brick foundat…
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The early English settlers came to Virginia looking for gold, silver, and precious gems, but never found them. Some of the artifacts they left behind, however, are highly valuable to the archaeologists who excavated Jamestown centuries later.
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That at last Christmas we had trading here ten ships from London, two from Bristoll, twelve Hollanders, and seven from New-England.A Perfect Description of Virginia, 1649
Jamestown's waterfront property was prime real estate. Governor Harvey wr…
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" ? not at all replenished with springs of fresh water ? their wells brackish, ill-scented ? and not grateful to the stomach." If a well at Jamestown was sunk to the right depth, it could yield "sweet water." Too deep a well would hit saltwater; t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB8M_fences-and-livestock_Williamsburg-VA.html
Jamestown had a large number of four-footed and feathered residents. A chronicler wrote of "two hundred ? cattle, as many goats, infinite hogs in herds all over the woods." The government required fences to keep the free-roaming livestock out of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB8K_the-jamestown-riverfront-1630-1690_Williamsburg-VA.html
Jamestown provided the colonists with a deep-water port in a defensible location. Because shoreline settlements and camps allowed for easier transportation and a ready source of food, the colonists and Virginia Indians both lived on or near major …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB6K_colonial-highway_Williamsburg-VA.html
The James River was a lifeline. Ships from England brought tools, seeds, cloth, food, more settlers - and hope. The colonists sent back timber, tobacco, pitch, potash, furs, iron ore - and stories. By 1650, wharves reached out to the river channel…