A Comparative Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture (www.chesapeakearchaeology.org)

• About the Project
• Site Summaries
  • Sandys
  • Carter’s Grove CG8
  • Reverend Buck
  • Rich Neck Plantation
  • Jordan’s Journey
  • Old Chapel Field
  • Clifts Plantation
  • Camden
  • Posey
  • Mattapany
  • Compton
  • Patuxent Point
  • King’s Reach
  • Chaney’s Hills
  • Chalkley
  • Burle's Town Land
  • Homewood's Lot
  • Bennett’s Point
• Map
• Interpretations and Papers
• Database
• Downloads
• Technical Data

Ancillary Data

Reports and papers focusing on particular aspects of the various sites. Links are provided for electronically-available reports and papers.

Carter's Grove CG-8

Noël Hume, Ivor. 1982. Martin’s Hundred. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.

Jordan's Journey

Bowen, Joanne. 1996. Beef, Venison, and Imported Haddock in Colonial Virginia: A Report on the Analysis of Faunal Remains from Jordan's Journey. On file, Department of Archaeological Research, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg.

McCartney, Martha W. 1988. The History of the Hopewell Airport Property, Jordan’s Point, Prince George County, Virginia. Prepared for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. On file, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond.

Owsley, Douglas W. and Bertita E. Compton. [1992]. An Osteological Investigation of Human Remains from “Jordan’s Journey” (Site 44PG302), a 17th-Century Fortified Settlement in Prince George County, Virginia. On file, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond.

Owsley, Douglas W., Kim M. Lanphear, and Bertita E. Compton. 1990. Osteological Examination of Seventeenth Century Burials from Jordan’s Point, Prince George’s [sic] County, Virginia. On file, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond.

Clifts

Aufderheide, A.C., F.D. Neiman, L. Witmers and G. Rapp. 1981. Lead in bone II: Skeletal-lead content as an indicator of lifetime lead ingestion and the social correlates in an archaeological population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 55:285-291.

Neiman, F.D. 1990. An Evolutionary Approach to Archaeological Inference: Aspects of Architectural Variation in the 17th-century Chesapeake. Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University.

Wyrick, C.H. 1971. Stratford and the Lees. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 30(1).

Posey

Brush, Grace S. 1997. Pollen Study of Two Sediment Cores from Mattawoman Creek, Maryland. Prepared for the Department of Research, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, St. Leonard.

Landon, David B., and Andrea Shapiro. 1998. Analysis of Faunal Remains from the Posey Site (18CH281). Prepared for the Department of Research, Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, St. Leonard.

Mattapany

King, Julia A., and Edward E. Chaney. 2004. Lord Baltimore’s Neighborhood: Standards of Living on the 17th-Century Patuxent Frontier. Avalon Chronicles 8:261-283.

King, Julia A., and Edward E. Chaney. 1999. Lord Baltimore and the Meaning of Brick Architecture in Seventeenth-Century Maryland. In Geoff Egan and Ronald L. Michael, eds., Old and New Worlds, pp. 51-60. Oxbow Books, Oxford, England.

Pogue, Dennis J. 1987. Seventeenth-Century Proprietary Rule and Rebellion: Archaeology at Charles Calvert’s Mattapany-Sewall. Maryland Archeology 23(1): 1-37.

Pogue, Dennis J. 1983. Patuxent River Naval Air Station Cultural Resources Survey, Volume I: Archaeology and History. Report prepared for the Public Works Department, Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Maryland.

Compton

Gibb, James G. 1994. "Dwell Here, Live Plentifully, and be Rich": Consumer Behavior and the Interpretation of 17th Century Archaeological Assemblages from the Chesapeake Bay Region. Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York-Binghamton.

Gibb, James G., and Julia A. King. 1991. Gender, Activity Areas, and Homelots in the 17th-Century Chesapeake Region. Historical Archaeology 25(4):109-131.

Gibb, James G., and Wesley J. Balla. 1994. Dutch Pots in Maryland Middens; or What Light from Yonder Pot Breaks? Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology (9):67-85.

Patuxent Point

Gibb, James G. 1993. English Trade Tokens from a 17th Century Colonial Site in Southern Maryland. Maryland Archaeology 1 & 2: 55-60.

Gibb, James G. 1994. "Dwell Here, Live Plentifully, and be Rich": Consumer Behavior and the Interpretation of 17th Century Archaeological Assemblages from the Chesapeake Bay Region. Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York-Binghamton.

Gibb, James G. 1996. The Archaeology of Wealth: Consumer Behavior in English America. Plenum Press, New York.

Gibb, James G., and Julia King. 1991. Gender, Activity Areas, and Homelots in the 17th-Century Chesapeake Region. Historical Archaeology 25(4): 109-131.

King, Julia A., and Douglas H. Ubelaker, eds. 1996. Living and Dying on the 17th Century Patuxent Frontier. Maryland Historical Trust Press, Crownsville, MD.

Weinand, Daniel C., and Elizabeth J. Reitz. 1993. Vertebrate Fauna from the Historic Patuxent Point Site (18CV271), Maryland. Manuscript on file, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, St. Leonard, MD.

King's Reach

Gaynor, Jay. 1993. "Tooles of all sorts to worke": A Brief Look at Trade Tools in 17th-Century Virginia. In The Archaeology of 17th-Century Virginia. Special Publication No. 30 of the Archeological Society of Virginia. Dietz Press, Richmond, VA.

Holt, Cheryl A. n.d. King’s Reach Plantation Homelot, 18CV83, Faunal Analysis. Manuscript on file, Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory.

Pogue, Dennis J. 1991. Clay Tobacco Pipes from Four 17th Century Domestic Sites in the Lower Patuxent River Valley of Maryland. In The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe XII: Chesapeake Bay. BAR International Series 566, Oxford, England.

Pogue, Dennis J. 1997. Culture Change Along the Tobacco Coast: 1670-1720. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, American University, Washington, DC.

Pogue, Dennis J., and Patricia J. McGuire. 1988. Servant Versus Planter: Household Assemblages from the King’s Reach Site (ca.1690-1715) Calvert County, Maryland. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Baltimore, Maryland.

Chaney's Hills

Callage Rosemarie, John Kille and Al Luckenbach. 2002. "Tobacco-pipes from the Chaney’s Hills Site (ca. 1658-1686): Life on the Frontier." In Al Luckenbach, C. Jane Cox and John Kille, eds. The Clay Tobacco-Pipe in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (1650-1730), pp.72- 77. Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation, Inc. Annapolis, MD.

Callage, Rosemarie, John Kille and Al Luckenbach. 1999. An Analysis of 17th Century Clay Tobacco-Pipes from the Chaney’s Hills Site ( 18AN1084). Maryland Archaeology 35(2):27-33. Journal of the Archaeological Society of Maryland, Crownsville, MD.

Chalkley

Luckenbach, Al and C. Jane Cox. 2002. "The Chalkley Site (1677-1685): Tobacco-Pipes of a Middling Planter." In Al Luckenbach, C. Jane Cox and John Kille, eds. The Clay Tobacco-Pipe in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (1650-1730), pp.46-63. Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation, Inc. Annapolis, MD.

Burle's Town Land

Sharpe, Shawn, Jason D. Moser, and John Kille. 2002. "Burle's Town Land (ca. 1649-1676): A Marked Abundance of Pipes." In Al Luckenbach, C. Jane Cox, and John Kille, eds., The Clay Tobacco-Pipe in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (1650-1730), pp. 28-39. Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation, Annapolis, MD.

Homewood's Lot

Gadsby, David and Rosemarie Callage. 2002. "Homewood’s Lot through Four Generations: Tobacco-Pipes from 18AN871." In Al Luckenbach, C. Jane Cox and John Kille, eds. The Clay Tobacco-Pipe in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (1650-1730), pp 18-26. Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation, Inc. Annapolis, MD.

Luckenbach, Al and Taft Kiser. 2004. Colonial Chesapeake Pipes. In Press.

Luckenbach, Al and C. Jane Cox. 2003. "Tobacco-Pipe Manufacturing in Early Maryland: The Swan Cove Site (ca. 1660-1669)." In Al Luckenbach, C. Jane Cox and John Kille, eds. The Clay Tobacco-Pipe in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (1650-1730), pp.46-63. Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation, Inc. Annapolis, MD.

Luckenbach, Al and James G. Gibb. 1994. Dated Window Leads from Colonial Sites in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Maryland Archeology, (30)2. Journal of the Archaeological Society of Maryland, Crownsville, MD.

Maryland State Archives. 1731. Anne Arundel County Patents, Liber EI# 5, Folio 139. Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD

Maryland State Archives. 1750/51. Anne Arundel County Court Judgements, Liber IS#B1 Folio 686. Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD.

Maryland State Archives. 1734. Anne Arundel County, St Margaret’s, Westminster Parish Records.

Bennett's Point

Preston, Dickson. 1972. Ozymandias Beside The Chesapeake: Richard Bennett was at One Time the Richest Man on the Continent, and Now There’s Only a Gravestone. The Sun Magazine, November 5, pp. 20-25.

Wesler, Kit W. 1984. Excavations at Icehouse Point, 18QU28: The Sayer-Bennett Plantation. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Delaware 17:1-28.