[Verginius Rufus]

I don't know about Jamestown...you may be right about that. Convicts were sent to Virginia later--that's part of the plot of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders.

[wagglebee]

However, the original fort at Jamestown (where the coffin was found) was abandoned after a fairly short period of time and the English moved to Williamsburg. This would mean that only a small number of Englishmen would have been buried there.

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