The locations of the 1715 patents have been remapped by Priscilla  
Harris Cabell in Turff & Twigg, The French Lands, published in 1988.  
She included a short title chain for each property through 3 or more  
transfers for each.

Dan Mouer of Virginia Commonwealth U. did survey work looking for  
Manakintowne on Keswick Plantation. I could find no reference to a  
written report in the VA Dept of Historic Resources report file (the  
gray lit).

As far as excavations go, I excavated two houses that were part of  
two separate Huguenot patents in advance of development in 2003.  The  
majority of development in the area was for coal mining in the late  
18th through 19th century. A bullet mold dating to the 18th century  
was the earliest artifact found. Survey work in the area shows that  
other Huguenot houses were located down on first terraces overlooking  
the James River floodplain. Thus it may be that the houses excavated  
on the uplands were later.

Lyle Browning, RPA


On Aug 13, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Matchen, Paul (Austin,TX-US) wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone knew of any literature (grey or otherwise)
> that I could obtain dealing with archaeological investigations of
> Huguenot settlements in North America.  I was reading some historical
> literature concerning Manakintowne (now Manakin) in Powhatan  
> County, VA
> recently and wondered what archaeology had been done in that  
> location as
> well as in other Huguenot settlements along the East Coast
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> I am making this request for my own information as some of my  
> ancestors
> seemed to have settled in Manakintowne and am interested to learn more
> about the particulars of the material culture/lifeways of these people
> during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Paul
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> Paul M. Matchen, M.A., R.P.A.
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