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Figure 4. — Detail of Colonel Desandrouin's map of 1781. Arrow indicates Jones site. 



promontory as Tutter's Neck. Indeed the entire 

 premise is built upon the discovery of wine-bottle 

 seals in one refuse pit beneath the kitchen chimney 

 and in another approximately 125 feet southeast of 

 the house. These seals, bearing the initials "F i," 

 were identified as having belonged to Frederick Jones, 

 who later became Chief Justice of North Carolina. 

 The identification was arrived at on the evidence of 

 the will of David Bray, of James City County, that 

 was contested in 1732. In the legal action, reference 

 was made to ". . . one messuage, 2 plantation, piece 

 or parcel of land," known as Tutties Neck, or "three 

 hundred acres, more or less, lying and being in the 



2 "Mesuage, in Common law, is used for a dwelling-house, 

 with Garden. Courtilage, Orchard, and all other things be- 

 longing to it" (E. Phillips, The New World of Words, London, 

 1671). 



pai ish of Bruton." This land was stated to have been 

 purchased by Bray's mother, Judith Bray, from 

 Frederick Jones; it then was obtained by John 

 Randolph and passed by him in exchange to Thomas 

 Bra) . 



Thus we know that Frederick Jones had owned a 

 300-acre tract known as Tutties Xeck. Consequently, 

 the discovery of bottle seals bearing th 

 "Fi" in the vicinity of a "messuage" at the mouth 

 of Tutter's Neck Creek was not withoul significance. 

 Further corroboration was provided by a letter of 

 1721 from Frederick Jone brother Thomas, in 



Williamsburg, regai I marking of 



1 William V . . A ( ulleclion 



... vol. t I id, 1820), p. 571 



PAPER 5 3 : EXCAVATIONS AT TUTTER'S NECK 



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