suppose that even if Governor Eden tiul not personall) 

 profit from reach's activities, he was fully aware 

 the pirate made his winter quarters in .1 North 

 Carolina inlet. Teach was nol finally cornered until 

 Novembei ' '■ ' '18, in the famous exploit of Lieu- 

 nard off < >cracoke Inlet. 4 : Jones had l>\ 

 then been in office for at least a year and he was 

 doubtless aware of the Governor's sympathies. 

 Indeed, with his own father's example to guide him, 

 Jones was clearly an excellent choice for Chief 

 Justice il lenienc) towards piracy was a prerequisite 

 for the job. Although there is no evidence that 

 Jones profited from Blackbeard's operations, the 

 records show that he was quite prepared to turn the 

 trust "i his office to his own advantage. In the end 

 it was .1 comparatively small manipulation that 

 proved his undoing. 



In 1721 one Daniel Mack Daniel murdered, by 

 drowning, a certain Ebanezar Taylor and carried off 

 his goods and money to a total of £290.0. Od. When 

 Mack Daniel was apprehended the money was passed 

 for safekeeping to Frederick Jones, who apparently 

 pocketed it. On April 4, 1722, the following entry 

 appeared in the Colonial Records of North Carolina: u 



It's the < (pinion of this Board that the money lodged in 

 the said Cull" II red k Junes hands late Cheif Justice for the 

 appearance ol Robert Atkins and Daniel Mackdaniel at 

 the Gen 1 Court ought to have been deliver 3 to the present 

 Cheif Justice with the Gen 1 Court Papers & Records. 



Order" that the said Coll ffredrick Jones late Cheif 

 Justice due immediately pay to Christopher Gale Cheif 

 Justice or his Order whatever moneys he has in his hands 

 lodged as aforesaid . . . in case of failure hereof the Attorney 

 Gen 1 is hereby Order d to take proper measures for the 

 thereof. 



\i the session of July 31 to August 4, 1722, Jones 

 was due to appear to answer the charge that he had 

 failed to relinquish the money. But when the session 

 opened, it was reported that Colonel Jones was 

 dead. 45 He had made his will only five clays after 

 the initial order of April 4 had been issued. 1 ' 



Frederick Jones was in many respects a worthy and 

 upright member of the North Carolina Council, or 

 so one would gather from the opinion of Hugh Jones 



(no relation), who wrote: ''('.ol. Frederick Jones, one 

 of the Council, and in a good post, and of a good 

 estate in North Carolina, before his death applied to 

 me, desiring me to communicate the deplorable state 

 of their Church to the late bishop of London." i; 

 Frederick Jones presumabK thought no better ol tin 

 state of education in the colony, for we know that in 

 the period 1719 1 7 21 two of his sons were at school in 

 Willi, misburg. 4S 



The Excavation 



As stated in the introduction, the area and intensity 

 of the excavations were limited by time and prevailing 

 local conditions. Being aware of these restrictions 

 from the outset, no attempt was made to undertake 

 the total clearance of cither the residence or kitchen. 

 Instead, carefully restricted cuttings were made across 

 the foundations to obtain the maximum information 

 with the minimum effort, at the same time retaining 

 sufficiently large undisturbed areas to merit total 

 clearance of the site at some future date. As the 

 area is now covered by fast-growing trees it is unlikely 

 that such an operation would be feasible within the 

 next 15 or 20 years. In the meantime, however, 

 Colonial Williamsburg has erected concrete markers 

 (see fig. 5) to record the positions of both buildings. 49 

 No excavation of any sort would have been under- 

 taken at this time had not the foundations been so 

 extensively and irreparably mutilated by the 1959 

 bulldozing. The loss of all the topsoil and the 

 scooping of the upper courses of the foundations into 

 banks to serve as windbreaks had done such damage 

 that it was essential that something be done before 

 the new growth took hold. 50 The operation should 



43 Sami 1 1 A. Amu. History of North Carolina (Greensboro 

 Van Noppen, 1908), vol. 1, pp. 200 204; and Lefler 

 and Newso ■ m State, pp. W64. 



u Colonial Records oj rolina, vol. 2, p. 472. 



« [bid., p. 475. 



•"Text of th<' will is given in L. H.Jones, Captain Ruhr, i Jones, 

 pp. 200-20 



*~ Hugh Jones, The Present State of Virginia [1724], edit 

 Richard L. Morton (Virginia Historical Society, 1956), p. 104 



48 "The Cocke Family of Virginia," Virginia Magazine of 

 History and Biography (October 1897), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 192. 



48 Two concrete fenceposts have been set up on the north- 

 south axis of the residence, the posts being driven immediately 

 beyond the respective chimney foundations. Two additional 

 posts have been erected on the east-west axis of the kitchen. 



50 As the work progressed, access to the site became increas- 

 ingly difficult, necessitating the abandoning of transport farther 

 and farther from the scene of operations. However, in the 

 winter of 1960-1961, after all save the last trench had been 

 dug, the Chesapeake Corporation crew drove a new road 

 through the neck, a road which in fact cut right through the 

 middle of the archeological area. By great good fortune the 

 road passed between the two buildings without doing much 

 more damage than had already been done by the earlier 

 bulldozing. 



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