[JoeProBono]

A conservator digitally isolated inscriptions (right) on the 17th-century Jamestown tablet (left).

Detail of inscriptions

[GeronL]

interesting

[left that other site]

I just LOVE Jamestown. The last time we had visited the Archaeological dig there, the had JUST discovered the post holes that outlined the ORIGINAL Jamestown fort. The Park Ranger was so emotional about the find that he had many of us in tears!

They also are very respectful to any human remains that they find.

I was very impressed with Jamestown, especially since they keep all the reenacting and replications a half mile away down the road from the actual site.

Thank you for sharing this new find!

[Verginius Rufus]

Not quite as old as Sir Francis Drake's "plate of brass" supposedly discovered in the 1930s, but this one has the advantage of being authentic.

There are at least 3 words from the Algonquian Indian language which were adopted as loan words in English--mocassin, tomahawk, and opossum.

[muawiyah]

Items like this are invaluable.

Recently I became aware that I could track our surname BACK to Great Brittain from France (where it arrived circa 8th century as people fled the Saxon "invasions").

The Saxon's had been authorized (by presumably King Arthur according to the Annals) to take over some previously farmed countryside but they continued to call the territory by the name of the Celtic family/clan who'd lived there earlier ~ except they wrote it down in their RUNIC ALPHABET. The name later floated on into modern English with the Rune letters untouched.

Makes a lot of difference Fur Shur.

I hope those who discovered this document can improve our understanding of the early settlement period in America.

[RegulatorCountry]

School? Teaching their own, and teaching the Powhatan to read and write?

Relations with the Powhatan were rocky, up and down, but not entirely unfriendly. One of my lines that go back to James Cittie legendarily descends from Chief Powhatan’s half brother Opechancanough, who was purportedly half Spanish. He spent a great deal of time at the Spanish fort up the river, and was even sent to Spain, had an audience with the royal court there, where he was known as Don Luis. He was educated by Jesuits.

Of course, Opechancanough more or less singlehandedly ignited the second Anglo-Powhatan War in 1622, too. As I said, it was rocky, up and down.

Going back that far with genealogy, through occasionally frequent intermarriage with the native population, can be a huge challenge, but there are copious records online, for those who wish to try:

http://www.nps.gov/jame/historyculture/genealogical-research-for-a-jamestown-ancestor.htm

[SunkenCiv]

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