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\\^ 1ST PERIOD BRICKWORK 

 ^SS? 2ND PERIOD BRICKWORK 



BRICKWORK DESTROYED 



I-;:. REFUSE PITS 



• M CONCRETE MARKERS 



Figure 5. — Plan of excavated features. 



County. 15 Were it not for the purchase of 1711, it 

 would be reasonable to assume that the 300 acres 

 in James City County were the same that Jones sold 

 to Judith Bray at some unspecified date prior to 

 1722, the year of his death. 



We know that as early as 1703 Frederick Jones had 

 interests in North Carolina, because it was in that 

 year that one Jeremiah Goodridg brought suit against 

 him and he was then described as "late of London." 16 

 In 1707 Jones received a grant of 4,565 acres in what 

 are now Jones and Craven Counties in North Caro- 

 lina. 17 At that time he was living in or near Wil- 



is "Virginia Quit Rent Rolls, 1704," Virginia Ma 

 Hnlory and Biography, vol. 31. no. 2 (April 1923), p. 157; vol- 31, 

 no. 3 (July 1923), p. 222; vol. 32, no. 1 (January 1924), p. "2. 



10 Colonial Records of .Xorth Carolina, edit. William L. Saunders 

 (Raleigh 1886), vol. 1, p. 590. 



17 Alonzo T. Dill, "Eighteenth Century New Bern," North 

 Carolina Historical Reriew (January 1945), vol. 22, no. 1, p. 18. 



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liamsburg — presumably on his 300 acres in James 

 City County; in 1705 he was a vestryman of the 

 Parish of Bruton with its church in Williamsburg, 18 

 and in the same year both he and David Brav were 

 listed as being among the directors for the building "1 

 Williamsburg. 19 It would seem that he was a man 

 of consequence in the county at that time. 



Among the papers of the Jones family are indentures 

 dated 1708 transferring property in both King 

 William and New Kent Counties from Fredei 

 his brother Thomas Jones, 2 " and it may well be 

 strued that this transfer occurred ai the time that 

 Frederick moved to North Carolina. In the same 

 year his plantation in Chowan Precinct, North 



18 -Bruton Chur vn and Mary College Qtiarterly (Jan- 



uary 1895), ser. 1. v»l. 3, no. 3, p. 180. 



,|| IM , . vol. 3 (Philadelphia, 1823), p. 



431. 



2° Papers of the Jones Familv . . , vol. 1. 



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