merchandise on the former's account •■marked by 

 mistake F I." ' It was common practice for planta- 

 tion owners to use the same shipping marks that they 

 used for their wine-bottle seals, and therefore it may 

 be assumed that Junes also owned bottles bearing 

 the initials "F I." 



Having established with reasonable certainty that 

 the site in question was the "Tutties Neck" that had 

 been purchased by Judith Bray from Frederick Jones, 

 the next step was to attempt to piece together the 

 history of the site both before and after that trans- 

 action. Unfortunately, during the Civil War the 

 James City County records were removed for safe- 

 keeping to Richmond where they were destroyed. This 

 loss makes any research into the early documentary 

 histon of the county extremely difficult, and in many 

 cases well nigh impossible. Source material must 

 be drawn from family papers and from passing refer- 

 ences in the records of other counties. Although the 

 history of Tutter's Neck has many significant facts 

 missing, it is surprising that the record is as full as it is. 



The first reference occurs in 1632 (or 1642) when 

 mention is made of "great neck at the barren neck, 

 next adjoining to Tutties neck, a branch of Archers 

 hope creek." ■'■ Similar references to "Tutteys" 

 neck and "lutteyes" neck occurred in 1637 6 and in 

 1646. 7 Later, in 1679, a deed of sale from Edward 



* Papers of the Jones Family of Northumberland County, 

 Virginia, 1649-1889 (MSS. Division, Library of Congress), 



vol. 1. 



5 "Patents Issued During the Royal Government," William 

 and Marp College Quarterly (January 1901), ser. 1, vol. 9, no. 3, 

 p. 143. In the 17th century prior to the building of the College 

 i.l William and Mary, College Creek was known as Archer's 

 Hope Creek, after the settlement of Archer's Hope at its mouth. 



6 There was a patent dated February 6, 1637, to "Humphry 

 I I iggenson" for 700 acres "called by the name of Tutteys neck, 

 adj. to Harrop . . . F. S. E. upon a gr. swamp parting it from 

 Harrop land, W, S. W. upon a br. of Archers hope Cr. parting 

 it from Kingsmells neck, W. N. W. upon another br. of sd. 

 Cr. parting it from land of Richard Brewsters called by the 

 name of the great neck alias the barren neck & N. N. W into 

 the in, nne woods." Richard Brewster's 500 acres were de- 

 scribed as beginning "at the great Neck alias the barren neck, 

 adj. to Tutteys Neck a br. of Archers hope Cr. parting the 

 same, S. upon a br. of sd. Cr. parting it from Kingsmells 

 Neck .... Cavaliers and pioneers. Abstracts «/ Virginia Land 

 Patents and Cranh 1623 1800, abstracted and edited by Neil M. 



Richmond: Dietz Printing Co., 1934), vol. 1, pp. 80, 81. 



v On July 19, 1646, a patent was granted to Ri< hard Brewstei 



Land & Marsh, called the great Ne< k of Barren 



oining to lutteyes neck." •"Patents Issued . . . ," 



! 'ly ( July 1901), ser. 1, vol. 10, 



no. 1 , p. 



( \\ \iv to William South of Gloucester County refers 

 to a parcel of land at "Tunis Neck." 8 The same 

 spelling was used in 1682 in the will of Otho Thorpe, 

 of the Parish of All Hallows at the Wall in London, 

 who left to his cousin John Grice and Grice's two 

 elder children his plantation in Virginia called 

 "Tuttis Neck." 9 John Grice is recorded as having 

 been a justice in James City County in 1685 and 

 1964. 10 



No further references to Tutter's Neck are to be 

 found until 1711 when Frederick Jones obtained 100 

 acres commonly called "Lutties neck," n escheated 

 land, 12 from one Mathew Brown. It is at this point 

 that we run into trouble, for the contents of the pits 

 in which the Jones bottles were found included many 

 items of the late 17th century and none dating 

 later than the first decade of the 18th century. The 

 pit beneath the kitchen chimney also contained a 

 bottle bearing the seal of Richard Burbydge and 

 dated 1701. 13 The inference, therefore, was that 

 Frederick Jones was on the site during the first 

 years of the 18th century. Jones came from England 

 in l 7 02, u having inherited considerable estates from 

 his father, Capt. Roger Jones. In 1704 he is shown 

 in the Virginia Quit Rent Rolls as possessing 300 

 acres in James City County, 500 acres in New 

 Kent County, and 2,850 acres in King William 



i "Notes from Records of York County," Tyler's Quarterly 

 Historical and Genealogical Magazine (July 1924), vol. 6, no. 1, 

 p. 61. 



9 "Virginia Gleanings in England," Virginia Magazine of 

 History and Biography (October 1904), vol. 12, no. 2, p. 179. 



10 "List of Colonial Officers," Virginia Magazine of History and 

 Biography (January 1901), vol. 8, no. 3, p. 328; and "Lightfoot 

 Family," William and Mary College Quarterly (October 1894), 

 ser. 1, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 104. 



11 "Patents Issued . . . ," William and Mary College Qitarlerly 

 (January 1904), ser. 1, vol. 12, no. 3, p. 186. For similar spell- 

 ing see note 7, above. 



12 "Escheat, in Common-law, significth lands that fall to a 

 Lord within his Manour, by forfeiture, or the death of his 

 Tenant without Heirs; it cometh from the French word Escheire, 

 to fall" (Phillips, New World of Words). 



13 On August 14, 1710, Richard Burbydge was among those 

 who signed a report on the inspection of the vessel Jamaica 

 Merchant, lying at anchor in the upper district of the James 

 River, at the precept of Governor Spotswood. The inspectors 

 were sworn by Capt. John Geddes, a justice of the peace for 

 James County. (Calendar of Virginia State Papers and other Manu- 

 scripts, 1652-1781, edit. Wm. P. Palmer, M.D., Richmond, 1875, 

 vol. 1, p. 141.) This is the only reference to Burbydge that has 

 been found. 



14 L. H. Jones, Captain Robert Jones of London and Virginia 

 (Albany, 1891), p. 34. 



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