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Buck Site - 44JC568

Buck Excavation The archaeology of 44JC568, the Reverend Richard Buck site, tells a story of frequent change and challenging times in Jamestown's hinterland. 44JC568 was excavated under the direction of the Preservation Virginia (formerly APVA Preservation Virginia) Jamestown Rediscovery project during the summers of 1996 and 1997. Archaeologists named the site after the area's first documented land owner, the Reverend Richard Buck, who served as Minister at Jamestown from 1610-24.

The Buck site, located in James City County, Virginia, on a parcel known as Neck-of-Land in the Peleg's Point residential subdivision, is approximately one mile north of Jamestown Island. Neck-of-Land Road forms the site's western boundary. The Back River--which drains into the Thorofare, and subsequently the James River--is approximately one-half mile to the southwest of the site. The main channel of Mill Creek is approximately one mile to the east of the site, and a tributary of Powhatan Creek is within one-quarter of a mile to the west.

Richard Buck's orphaned children and their guardians, overseers, and kin were the series of resident and non-resident owners at 44JC568 from 1630-50. Archaeological investigations revealed insights into the daily lives of these individuals and the tenants and indentured servants in their employ. As a leading suburb of Jamestown, Neck-of-Land and its inhabitants were essential to the post-Uprising expansion of America's first permanent English settlement.



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