Contemporary records, confirmed by certain objects found at Jamestown
(especially small tools), reveal that pewterers, silversmiths colliers,
wheelwrights, calkers, bricklayers, millwrights, shoemakers, masons,
cordage makers, tanners, tobacco pipemakers, armorers, gunmakers,
braziers, and others worked in the capital city at various periods
between 1607 and 1699.
[Illustration: A SILVERSMITH WEIGHING CLIPPED COINS. (Conjectural sketch
by Sidney E. King.)]
[Illustration: BRASS WEIGHTS AND A PIECE OF SCRAP BRASS UNEARTHED AT
JAMESTOWN. RECORDS INDICATE THAT MANY METALWORKERS EMIGRATED TO VIRGINIA
DURING THE 17TH CENTURY.]