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  2. Mystery surrounding 400-year-old Jamestown gravestone ...

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    The tombstone, from 1627, was erected at the Jamestown settlement following the death of Sir George Yeardley, a colonial governor of Virginia. Mystery surrounding 400-year-old Jamestown gravestone ...

  3. Measuring nearly 6 feet long (less than 2 meters) and 3 feet wide (less than 1 meter), the tombstone was discovered in 1901 inside the entrance of a third Jamestown church that was built around ...

  4. Archaeologists finally solve mystery behind oldest tombstone ...

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    Historical records indicate that two knights died in Jamestown during the 17th century – Sir Thomas West, in 1618, and Sir George Yeardley. Sir Yeardley’s step-grandson ordered a tombstone for ...

  5. Jamestown Church - Wikipedia

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    Jamestown Church, constructed in brick from 1639 onward, ... Originally located in the chancel of the third church was the "Knight's Tombstone", ...

  6. List of Jamestown colonists - Wikipedia

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    Painting of John Smith and colonists landing in Jamestown. On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River.

  7. Jamestown, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Jamestown [a] settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.It was located on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi (4 km) southwest of present-day Williamsburg. [1]

  8. Historic Jamestown - Wikipedia

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    Historic Jamestown is the cultural heritage site that was the location of the 1607 James Fort and the later 17th-century town of Jamestown in America. It is located on Jamestown Island, on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia, and operated as a partnership between Preservation Virginia (formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) and the U.S. National Park ...

  9. Bones from a Tudor warship reveal what life was like for the crew

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    The elaborate piece of black limestone, placed in the floor of a church in Jamestown, Virginia, has been called the “Knight’s Tombstone” because of carvings on its surface.