After the fire : the resettlement of Ferryland, post 1696 (CgAf-02, Area F)

• Main Author: Hranka, Teal L. R.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 2008
• Subjects: Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/9112/; https://research.library.mun.ca/9112/1/Hranka_Teal.pdf

This thesis examines the archaeological vestiges of an early eighteenth-century domestic structure at the English colony of Avalon at Ferryland, Newfoundland. Ongoing excavations at the site have exposed a number of seventeenth-century structures, clarifying the early evolution of the colony beginning with its settlement in 1621 : yet information about the turbulent early eighteenth century has to date remained comparably rare. -- In 1696 the colony was attacked and destroyed, the colonists captured and ransomed. Resettlement occurred one year later, but the ensuing period was one of great stress at the colony as its inhabitants struggled to reestablish their earlier economic success amidst continuing attacks on the fishery. This thesis is an examination of post-raid life derived from the archaeological analysis of an early eighteenth-century domestic structure. It provides an opportunity to discuss the growth and development of the colony into the early eighteenth century and to attempt to understand the ways in which the raid and the events that followed the raid changed the social and economic context of life at Ferryland.