How’d they manage to be under a house foundation that was built in the early 18th century?
Another tragic accident with contraception in a time machine. Or, the reporter effed it up.
The 18th century is the period from January 1, 1701 to December 31, 1800. So a house built in the early 18th century would have been built in the early 1700’s.
“How’d they manage to be under a house foundation that was built in the early 18th century?”
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Article says the original house was “very small” and that the remains were found under a later addition.
Some of the homes built back then had dirt floor basement.
When we were house hunting in Maryland years ago, we went through a house built-in the 1700’s for one Of Lord Calvert’s family members, and the basement had a dirt floor.
There was a body found in the basement of an old home in Annapolis several years ago. It was a young man and by the injuries he had suffered through his life they assumed he was a slave. The DNA showed he wasn’t African but European probably a Scot or Irish.
These bodies were under a later addition. Secrets were buried in basements.
Might have had a dependency built over the burial site years later.
Exactly what I was going to post! ...Thought to scroll down the thread to see if someone caught that before I did.