Martin's Hundred: The Discovery of a Lost Colonial Virginia Settlement

xx, 343 pp. "In 1618, two years before the Mayflower set sail, two hundred and twenty English settlers were sent to populate the 20,000-acre Martin's Hundred tract on the James River in Virginia. Three years later, the settlement was ravaged by an Indian massacre. In 1970, while on a routine dig to excavate an eighteenth-century plantation, Ivor Noel Hume, director of archaeology for Colonial Williamsburg, and staff accidentally discovered traces of one of the most extensive of Britain's early American enterprises: the lost and forgotten Martin's Hundred." "Martin's Hundred was an early 17th-century plantation located along about ten miles (16 km) of the north shore of the James River in the Virginia Colony east of Jamestown in the southeastern portion of present-day James City County, Virginia. The Martin's Hundred site is described in detail in the eponymous book of Ivor Noel Hume first published in 1979."