I'll at about the time that Jones and his neighbors 

 had appealed to Virginia for aid, and it was not to 

 end until 1713 when the greater pari of the defeated 

 tribe moved north to New York to become the sixth 

 part "l the [roquois Confederation, [n October 1712 

 [ones' plantation was attacked; but in a letter from 

 the president of the council, Pollock, to the Governor 

 of South Carolina, it was slated that the attackers 

 were "' . . . beat off, none killed of our people." -' 

 Although there was no loss of life, it would appeal 

 that the effecl on Jones' plantation was considerable. 



In the Journal of the 1 louse ol Burgesses at Williams- 

 burg ii was recorded that on November 5, 1712, 

 "Frederick Jones, who some years ago removed two 

 slaves out of this colony into North Carolina, his 

 plantation having been totally ruined by the hostil- 

 ities there: asks permission to bring his said negroes 

 back again without paying duty." 28 Although the 

 petition was granted, there is no indication that Jones 

 did, in fact, return. The important phrase in this 

 notice of petition is the "who some years ago,'' for it 

 seems probable that this refers to the time when Jones 

 left James City County to settle in North Carolina. 

 Working on the assumption that "some years ago" 

 would be unlikely to refer to a period of time short of 

 three or four years, it can be construed that the date 

 of removal fell in 1708 or 1709 at the latest. 



However the evidence is interpreted, it still remains 

 curious that Jones should have purchased the 100 acres 

 of "Lutties Neck" in 1711 and that he should sell a 

 300-acre tract known as "Tutties Neck" to Judith 

 Bray, when in fact he appears to have possessed a total 

 of 4<io acres in James City County, only one of which 

 is known to bear a name resembling Tuner's or 

 I M 1 1 !<-," Neck. The only reasonable construction 

 must be that Mathew Brown's escheated acres ad- 

 joined '00 acres that already constituted Tutter's 

 Neck. But even then there remains the problem of 

 why only "by estimation, three hundred acres, more 

 or less" -"■' were sold to Mrs. Bray. No evidence has 

 been found to show what became of the remaining 

 100 acres, and the only Virginia property mentioned 

 in Frederick Jones' will of April 9, 1 ~12, was described 



as "lying in King William County in Virginia, com- 

 monly called Horns Quarter." 3U 



It is unfortunate that the direst gap in the docu- 

 mentary evidence spans much the same period as does 

 the archeological data. However, the genealogy of 

 the Bray family is of some assistance, providing clues 

 even if it cannot offer direct answers. When Thomas 

 Bray died on August 2, 1751, he was described as 

 "Col. Thomas Bray, of 'Little Town,' next to 'K.iii<_;s- 

 mill,' on James River." 3I That property, lying to the 

 east of the Kingsmill tract, can be traced back as far 

 as 1636, and it is known to have been owned by the 

 Pettus family in the latter part of the 17th century. 32 

 In about 1697 James Bray, son of James Bray, Sr., of 

 Middle Plantation (later Williamsburg) married 

 Mourning, widow of Thomas Pettus, Jr., and so 

 acquired the "Little Town,"' or "Littletown," tract. 33 

 This James Bray had three children, of whom Thomas 

 was the eldest and thus became heir to his father's 

 estate. 



James Bray, Jr., had two brothers (as well as a 

 sister). The eldest son, Thomas, died intestate. 

 David, the youngest of the three, married Judith 

 (b. 1679, d. Oct. 26, 1720), by whom he had one son, 

 David, Jr., 34 who married Elizabeth Page (b. 1702, 

 d. 1734) and had no heir. The previously discussed 

 transaction of 1732 following the death of David 

 Bray, Jr., whereby Thomas Bray obtained the 

 "Tuttie's Neck" acres that had been purchased at an 

 unspecified date by Judith Bray, 35 would suggest that 

 Frederick Jones retained the title until 1717. This 

 may be deduced on the grounds that Mrs. Bray would 

 have been unlikely to have purchased land while her 

 husband, David Bray, Sr., was still alive. Thus Jones 

 would seem to have sold Tutter's Neck between 1717 

 and 1720 when Judith Bray died. 



Thomas Bray, as stated above, lived at Littletown, 

 and there is no likelihood that he ever resided at 



' \ rth Carolina, vol. 1, p. 864. 

 "in the Journal of the House of Burgesses, 1712- 

 ' I m rly (April 191 }), ser. 1, 

 I, p. 249. 



large, vol. 4 (Richmond, 1820), 

 p 



30 Papers of the Jones Family . . . , vol. 1. 



;l "Diary of John Blair. Copied from an Almanac for 1751, 

 Preserved in Virginia Historical Society," William and Man 

 College Quarterly (January 1899), ser. 1, vol. 7, no. 3, p. 151, 

 note 2. 



'2 Conway Robinson, "Notes from Council and General 

 Court Records," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 

 (October 1906), vol. 14, no. 2, p. 188, note 3. 



33 "Bray Family," William ami Man College Quarterly (April 

 1905), ser. 1, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 266. 



3 < Ibid. 



35 Hening, Statutes at Large, vol. 4 (Richmond, 1820), p. 371. 



40 



49: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY 



