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Figure ;. Aeriai photograph of Tutter's Neck taken soon after bulldozing and before the 

 Jones site (arrow) was found. Photo courtesy City of Williamsburg. 



east. These sites also lay within the bulldozed 

 area, but. paradoxically, no trace "l these have 

 been found. Comparison of the Desandrouin map 

 with the aerial photograph (fig. 3) will show that 

 i ill, marsh-flanked stream flowed across the back 

 of the Neck in the 18th century and emptied into 

 Kingsmill Creek. This stream has since silted up 

 and has i ut a new channel that i au e it to open into 

 Tutter's Neck ('reek to the north of the house site. 



The Desandrouin map suggests that the buildings 

 on Tutter's Neck had ceased to exist by 1781, and 

 this conjecture is supported by the artifacts from the 

 site, none of which date later than mid-century. 

 Considerable difficulty in establishing the lifespan of 

 the house and outbuilding has resulted in part from 

 the fact that any evidence for a terminus ante quem 

 had been stripped away by the bulldozing and in 

 part from the absence of any maps that identify this 



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