If
not, here’s a bit of a recap of that news from a few news outlets.
Jamestown
excavation unearths four bodies — and a mystery in a small box (Washington Post, 28 July 2015). Do check out the video!
JAMESTOWN,
Va. — When his friends buried Capt. Gabriel Archer here about 1609, they
dug his grave inside a church, lowered his coffin into the ground and placed a
sealed silver box on the lid.
This English
outpost was then a desperate place. The “starving time,” they called it. Scores
had died of hunger and disease. Survivors were walking skeletons, besieged by
Indians, and reduced to eating snakes, dogs and one another...
... more
than 400 years after the mysterious box was buried, Jamestown Rediscovery
and the Smithsonian Institution announced that archaeologists have found it, as
well as the graves of Archer and three other VIPs...
In the Closet in Early America (Talking Points Memo (TPM)
blog, 29 July 2015) and Remains Of Early Jamestown Leaders Unearthed In New Discovery.
Do watch the video (half-way down the page) about the process of unearthing the
burials!
The Jamestowne Chancel Burials (Vita Brevis, the
blog of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.)
The
announcement Tuesday of the (probable) identification of the remains
of four men buried under the chancel of the first parish church at Jamestowne,
Virginia – first discovered in 2010 and unearthed in 2013 – has now made the
front page of The Wall Street Journal and
appeared in other leading news outlets. While not the first Englishmen to die
in the nascent American colony, they were nearly so, probably interred in
Virginia soil in 1608 and 1610, more than a decade before the Mayflower arrived on American
shores; these men were certainly among the colony’s founders...
All
of these news articles about the relatively recent discovery of these burials
each present a slightly different perspective on the find, the historical
context, the process, and much more!
Though
my ancestors came to these shores three centuries after these early settlers,
it’s still fascinating to learn more about them via their burials. It is also
exciting to be reminded that it’s taken 400 years to discover these previously
hidden gems – what else is hidden under something else or in the walls of a
structure, etc, that are waiting to be discovered?!?!
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