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TABLE 2 — Summary of artifacts recovered from Charles Town sites.
Refined Ceramics
Food Prep and Storage
Drinking
Clothing and Clothing Production
Tin-glazed Earthenware
Beall’s Gift
466 466 / 20%
Cellar Building at the Point (Strat 6,7,8)
47 47 / 6%
Beall’s 20 by 40ft Structure
266 266 / 3%
Terrace A
2105 2108 / 16%
Hollyday’s Store
1
1 / 6%
Tracy’s Ordinary
1
1 / 2%
Buckley 200100
Green and Yellow Glazed Coarse Earthenware
North Devon Gravel
English Brown Stoneware Manganese Mottle Rhenish Gray Stoneware Staffordshire Slipped
Bale Seal
16 1 17 159
0
0
0 / 0% 0
0
0
0
0 / 0%
0
1
1
2 / 4% 7
0
3
0
10 / 18%
0
25 43 / 2% 40
2
64
2
0
1 / 0.3% 2
0
10
0
12 / 4%
0
11
28 / 0.2% 57
0
6
131 291 / 2% 439 37 514
02
108 / 1 0
1 2 0 7
8 / 0.3% 1687
0 1687 / 72%
5%
63 / 0.6% 3
5
2 0 0 4
11 / 0.1% 8719
0 8719 / 88%
992 / 7% 13
Bead
Buckle
Cowrie Shell
Needle Case
Pin
Scissors 000600 Thimble 0001100
3 0 0 0 15
18 / 6% 204
0
204 / 71%
1055 41 13 1 513
0 0 0 0 0
0 / 0% 17
0
17 / 94%
0 0 0 0 0
0 / 0% 44
0
44 / 77%
Smoking
Furniture
Arms
Pipe
Smoker’s Companion
1627 / 12% 8102
3 8105 / 61%
Hardware 001700 Tack 18 1 8 161 0 0
18 / 0.8% 1 / 0.3% 9 / 0.1% 168 / 1% 0 / 0% 0 / 0% Gunflint 0 0 37 93 0 0 Gunlock 000200
Shot
0 5 756 71 0 0
0 / 0 5 / 2% 793 / 8% 166 / 1%
2,330 288 9,889 13,286
and retained a half acre lot in the sale to Stoddert. Much of the land at the point was likely secured shortly after Charles Town was established due to its prominent location. Historical documents do not specifically indicate a structure on Moore’s half acre Beall’s Gift lot, but two other structures were confirmed through the 1704 land transfer of Beall’s Gift.
0 / 0%
18
0 / 0%
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River (see figure 5). This was a desirable location because it was near the town landing and a build- ing on the point would have had a clear view of ships coming up the Patuxent River. This area was also located at the end of the main town road. The boundary line between Beall’s Gift and Charles Town divides the area with at least one structure overlapping the two parcels.
James Moore owned Beall’s Gift before 1704,
A “shed” owned by Henry Darnall and a
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