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See At a Councell held at Mattapenye in the Archives of Maryland 15:97-98.
43. Archaeological investigations at the privately-owned Notley Hall were considerably more limited than at Mattapany. The work consisted of the excavation of 329 shovel test pits one foot in diameter and spaced 25 feet apart, sub-surface probing, and a magnetometer survey. A foundation was discovered in one of the shovel tests, and the magnetometer revealed a foundation measuring 20by40feetwithabackwingof20by30feet.The magnetometer suggested the house had an earthfast addition of 20 by 25 feet. The remote sensing survey was conducted by Dr. Timothy Horsley of Horsley Archaeologi- cal Prospection, LLC.
44. Julia A. King and Scott M. Strickland (2009) In Search of Zekiah Manor: Archaeological Investigations at His Lordship's Favor. St. Mary's College of Maryland.
St. Mary's City, MD. pp. 1-4.
45. Henry M. Miller and Jay Custer (2018) Revealing “My Lord’s Gift”: An Architectural Analysis of the ca. 1658- ca.1750 Henry Coursey Site (18QA30) in Queen Anne County, Maryland. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference. Virginia Beach, VA.
46. Carl R. Lounsbury, personal communication, March 21, 2018; Cary Carson (2013) “Plantation Housing: Seventeenth Century.” In The Chesapeake House, edited by Cary Carson and Carl R. Lounsbury. University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill, NC. p. 91.
47. Julia A. King and Scott M. Strickland (2009) In Search of Zekiah Manor: Archaeological Investigations at His Lordship's Favor. St. Mary's College of Maryland. St. Mary's City, MD. pp. 3-10.
48. Other meeting locations for the Council included Newtown, Portoback, Piscataway, and Spesutia, as well as locations beyond the colony’s borders. See Alex J. Flick (2009) “Att A Councell Held Att”: The Politics and Mobility of Maryland’s Council, 1637-1695. Project on file at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. St. Mary’s City, MD; The primary source for meetings of the Maryland Council is the published Council Proceedings, including volumes 3, 5, 8, 15, 17, and 20 of the Archives of Maryland. Flick’s analysis of council meetings taking place outside the capital, which covered the period from 1637 through 1695, revealed three important points: 1 - Council mobility (meeting beyond the confines of St. Mary’s City) spiked after periods of rebellion, with Council travel serving to reassert proprietary authority and provincial stability,
2 - certain proprietary landholdings, including Governor Charles Calvert’s home at Mattapany and his deputy governor’s dwelling at Notley Hall, served both practical and symbolic political purposes as meeting space for the Council, and 3 - meeting location was often used to imply a sense of either neutrality or advantage in diplomatic negotiation.
49. The “Virginia house” was the outcome of years of “trial-and-error experiments [that] created novel building systems” in the Chesapeake; see Cary Carson, Norman
F. Barka, William M. Kelso, Garry Wheeler Stone, and Dell Upton (1981) Impermanent Architecture in the Southern American Colonies. Winterthur Portfolio 16(2/3): 135-196; Willie Graham (2013) “Timber Framing.” In The Chesapeake House, edited by Cary Carson and Carl R.
Lounsbury. University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill, NC. pp. 206-214.
50. Russell Menard (2014) Sweet Negotiations Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados. Uni- versity of Virginia Press. Charlottesville, VA. pp. 109-112.
51. Archives of Maryland 15:125.
52. Julia A. King, Scott M. Strickland, and Kevin Norris (2008) The Search for the Court House at Moore's Lodge: Charles County's First County Seat. Report prepared for the Citizens of Charles County. St. Mary's College of Maryland. St. Mary's City, MD. p. 6.
53. Archaeologist David Palmer, who studies Jim Crow- era sites in Louisiana, has argued that the tendency to prefer sites rich (or richer) in artifacts has had politically serious implications for documenting and interpreting
the histories of people of color. See David T. Palmer (2011) “Archaeology of Jim Crow-Era African American Life in Louisiana’s Sugar Plantations.” In The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Post-Emancipation Life, edited by Jody Barnes. University of South Carolina Press. Columbia, SC; David T. Palmer (2012) The Ephemerality
of African Diasporic Materiality. The African Diaspora Archaeology Network - Spring 2012.
54. Skylar A. Bauer, Julia A. King, and Scott M. Strickland (2013) Archaeological Investigations at Notley Hall, Near Chaptico, Maryland. St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
St. Mary’s City, MD. pp. 16-17.
55. Fraser D. Neiman (1993) “Temporal Patterning in House Plans from the 17th-Century Chesapeake.” In The Archaeology of 17th-Century Virginia, edited by Theodore R. Reinhart and Dennis J. Pogue. The Dietz Press. Rich- mond, VA. pp. 251-284; On the reorientation of dwellings, see Willie Graham, Carter L. Hudgins, Carl R. Lounsbury, Fraser D. Neiman, and James P.Whittenburg (2007) Ad- aptation and Innovation: Archaeological and Architectural Perspectives on the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake. William and Mary Quarterly 64(3):499-501.
56. James Deetz (1996) In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life. Anchor Books. New York.
57. Garry Wheeler Stone (1982) Society, Housing and Architecture in Early Maryland: John Lewger’s St.
John’s. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia; Julia A. King (1988) A Comparative Midden Analysis of a Household and Inn in St. Mary’s City, Maryland, Historical Archaeology 22(2):17-39; Joyce E. Chaplin (2007) "Creoles in British America: From Denial to Acceptance." In Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory edited by In Charles Stewart. Left Coast Press. Walnut Creek, CA. pp. 46-65. p. 51.
58. Julia A. King and Douglas Ubelaker - editors (1996) Living and Dying on the 17th Century Patuxent Frontier. Maryland Historical Trust Press. Crownsville, MD.
pp. 27-29, 40-44, 116-119.
59. D. Brad Hatch and Julia A. King (2019) “Morgan Jones Pottery and the Maintenance of Community Rela- tionships in the Early Modern Potomac Valley.” In Colonial Encounters: The Lower Potomac River Valley at Contact, 1500-1720 CE, edited by Julia A. King and Barbara J. Heath. The University of Tennessee Press. Knoxville, TN.
60. William Digges was the son of Edward Digges, who served as governor of Virginia in 1655 and 1656; see
Lois Green Carr and David W. Jordan (1974) Maryland’s Revolution of Government, 1689-1692. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, NY.; also The Answer of John Coode and Kenelm Cheseldine... in the Archives of Maryland 8:225- 228, esp. 227.
61. Memorandum of Smith’s Case in the Archives of Maryland 8:147-149, esp. 148; Coll. Coode to the Earl of Shrewsbury From His Majesty’s Garrison at Mattapany in Maryland in the Archives of Maryland 8:123-4.
62. When Baltimore sailed for England in 1684, his
plan was to return to the colony. He booked passage to Maryland from London in September 1684 and again in September 1685. Events prevented his departure; See Peter Coldham (1990) The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1661-1699. Genealogical Publishing Company. Baltimore. pp. 486, 545. When the revolution took place, Baltimore was reported to have been living on London’s Bloomsbury Square; See John Orlebar – editor (1889) Records of
the English Catholics of 1715. Burns and Oates. London. xv; An Account of the Case of Mr Iohn Woodcock... in the Archives of Maryland 8:251-262, esp. 259-262; At
a Council held at St Marys in the Archives of Maryland 8:310-313, esp. 311.
63. The term, “golden age,” has been used to describe the period in Maryland following the Restoration. See Lois Green Carr, Lorena S. Walsh, and Russell R. Menard (1991) Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society
in Early Maryland. University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill, NC.
Sidebar • ENDNOTES
1. See Matthew D. McKnight (2018) “The Maryland Archaeological Synthesis Project: One State’s Solution to Archaeology’s Crushing Gray Literature Problem.” Paper presented at Electronic Symposium Futures and Challeng- es in Government Digital Archaeology. Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Washington, DC. Available at https://aejolene.github.io/SAA2018digigovt/ pages/about-the-session.html.
2. See Amber Seely (2005) Digging Up Archaeological Information. Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian
24 (1): 1-20; Jean Adelman and Eileen Markson (1987) Archaeology Resources in Libraries: Are they Accessible? Art Libraries Journal 12(4): 31-35; Dean R. Snow (2010) Making Legacy Literature and Data Accessible in Archae- ology. In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, edited by B. Frischer, J. Webb Crawford and D. Koller. Williamsburg, VA. pp. 350-355.
3. Julia King, Barbara Heath, et. al. (2019) History of the Project. The Colonial Encounters Project. Accessed February 18, 2019 at http://colonialencounters.org/ AboutTheProject/History.aspx.
4. Julia King, Barbara Heath, et. al. (2019) History of the Project. The Colonial Encounters Project. Accessed February 18, 2019 at http://colonialencounters.org/ AboutTheProject/History.aspx.
5. Data from the Colonial Encounters project (www. colonialencounters.org
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