New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-19

the church tow ~ = - -:
is a pile of
bricks. which lie on the little knoll at the edge of
what was said be the CauSewav, or neck in
the early days. These bricks are all that remain
of what the first glass mandatory in America,
the London Council having sent over, about 1921
four Italians skilled in glass-mahing introduce the
industry and make glass beads for trade with the
Indians 1t is SAID that the sand OF Jamestown used
making the glass OF such poor quality that the
Governor was forced to send his shalopS as far as
Cape Henry before ne able get sand OF. the
proper quality This glass factory was also used as a
sort OF bockhouse, and At the time OF Nathaniel
Bacon's rebellion in 1910 it Was taken by Bacon and
made the base of his attack Jamestown
In 1917. when Governor Berkeley captured the rng-
leaders Of this rebellion, he took two OF them the
glass factory and there hanged them in the presence
OF a large concourse OF people. as q warning TO all
scditious and rcbcllious persons. Numerous speci-
mems of the glass manufactured by this old factory
are bc found Jamestown Island and the adjacent
shores They consist principally of beads some blue
and others striped blue and white
SIX hundred yards east Of the old graveyard stand
the OF OF the most famous houses of colonial
times 1t first designed and built as a State
House. and used such for 4 number of years.
1t burned in one Of the numerous attacks
Jamestown by the Indians and upon being rebuilt
was designed by Sir Christopher Wren. 1t was then
called the Lord Governors Palace OF Her Malcstv's
Colonies IN Virginia and used such until the
Capital was moved to Williamsburg The house
originally hundred twenty feet long and forty
feet deep, including the large wings. The base
ment walls nearly four feet thick and the side
walls and a half feet thick 1t has been burned
eleven times and the walls standing to-day are as
solid and strong though built yesterday The
two wings down in the Civil War and the
bricks used to make chinncys for the huts OF the
soldiers who were IN winter quarters there.
In this house framed the first Constitution
which entitled the people of Virginia rcprcscn taon
and here that the House OF BurgcsScs used 10
sit; and it here, also that Nathaniel Bacon forced
Governor Berkeley to give him his commission fight
against the hostile Indians, by surrounding the house
with his soldiers and threatening shoot the Hon
Orabe BurgcsScS, who then assembled if the
commission not Immediately forthcoming. Need
less to say it
Between the river and this old house and directly in
front of it. | uncovered the foundations of what
appears to have been of the old tavcrns. The
foundation as far uncovered, twenty feet wide
and forty-two feet long. The floor of what was the
cellar covered with brick tiles and a half
inches thick, nine inches long and two and a half
inches wide. They pale green in color, and ex-
tremely hard Specimens carefully examined bv
General William ii. Carter L. S. Army who is an au-
thority adobe brick and he pronounced them be
undoubted specimens of Indian brick making Speci-
mems of these bricks to the museum of the
United States Military Academy at WestPoint, with
the result that the verdict given their
origin The building probably burned the