On Nov 28, 2022, at 8:49 AM, Brooks, Vincent <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:



Would the Bruton Parish Poorhouse have had a burial ground that might have

served as a potter's field?



Good suggestion.   Thanks.  One account, by Martha McCartney, vividly suggests the presence locally of the indigent, the ill, and the infirm…



https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/foundation/journal/Autumn00/poorhouse.cfm



And Martha’s earlier work for the Virginia DHR has even more detail, but suggests that an archeological survey of the property was largely of its surface features (any visible signs of graves would, I’m sure, have been recorded):



https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/VLR_to_transfer/PDFNoms/099-0070_Nomination_REDACTED.pdf



The suggestion made me think too of those in the Asylum—but there are several cemeteries in town for those who died there—one just at (and likely under) the parking lot for the Center for State Courts, the other out S. Henry St.

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