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and the New Room appear to have been used in similar ways, with a relatively expensive bed and bedstead in each along with chairs, a chest, cloth, and other miscellaneous goods. Hussey and his son-in-law operated the ordinary at the Charles County courthouse. A 1697 plat of the court- house lot (located adjacent to and served by the Hussey/Luckett households) depicts buildings with porch towers and “back rooms” to the rear of the main block, a form accommodating the rooms in the inventory. Unglazed floor tile, win- dow glass, and a density of 18 brick fragments per square foot, while significantly smaller than that observed for Calvert-related properties, nonethe- less suggests more brick in the architecture than almost all other (non-Calvert) sites. The Moore’s Lodge dwelling may have been similar to Notley Hall and My Lord’s Gift. Located deep in the interior, the dwelling would have been visible to the many travelers coming to court. At least one
record places a race track there.52
The Turner site is one of the few archaeo-
logically tested plantation sites occupied by a poor planter. The site, located in the interior not far from Moore’s Lodge, was occupied by Wil- liam Cross, his wife, Elizabeth, and their children from 1665 until ca. 1680. Both Cross and his wife were former servants. At his death in 1677, Cross owned a feather bed, two chests, a table, and two chairs(alldescribedasold).Testingatthesitehas been limited, yielding no architectural artifacts at all (including brick). What is remarkable about the site’s artifact assemblage are the large numbers of tobacco pipe fragments. Nearly three-quarters of the European artifacts consist of white pipes originating from Bristol, England and red pipes manufactured by local Natives.
Fair Fountain, occupied by an unidentified tenant and located in close proximity to Zekiah Indian Town, is thought to be an English house-