1650-1750 (Temporal Keyword)
1-2 (2 Records)
An archaeological rescue project in 1990 on the "My Lord’s Gift" site (18QU30) in Queen Anne, County, Maryland revealed a fascinating complex of colonial structures. This tract was granted by Lord Baltimore in 1658 to Henry Coursey, an Irish immigrant and important official in the colony’s government. Excavators found a variety of architecture represented at the site. The largest building they uncovered was the substantial cobble stone foundation of an unusual T-Plan house with a massive...
The Religious Landscape of Barbados Quakerism (2018)
Considering its size and the historical interest it has sparked, remarkably few physical or documentary traces of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") in Barbados survive. This paper combines data from a 2016 reconnaissance of Quaker-related sites on the island with a GIS analysis of these landmarks, high resolution satellite imagery, and a 1675 map of the island in order to consider the relationship of the Quaker community to the Barbadian landscape, both social and physical. The...