The body of a teenager had been moved there from somewhere else in the early 1800s in Colonial Williamsburg
It’s not clear why he was moved. But someone, perhaps a relative, wanted him to rest by the church, Jack Gary, director of archaeology for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, said Thursday.
Two were in poor states of preservation. One was probably a man about 40, who stood about 5 feet 8 inches tall. “What were those political economic conditions in which these individuals lived that would have induced stressors?” he said. Although there were a few free Black people, most African Americans in Williamsburg in the early 1800s were enslaved.
These were probably people who worshiped in an early structure that predated the brick church that was built in 1856 and stood on the site until it was purchased and torn down in the 1950s to make way for Colonial Williamsburg. Church tradition says that a local White businessman, Jesse Cole, while walking his lands one day, came upon the congregation meeting and singing in such a shelter. Moved by the scene, he offered them a carriage house he owned on Nassau Street.
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