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Excavations in the cellar yielded another locally produced tobacco pipe with the name of a prominent English colonist stamped into the stem with typeface. William Faldo was the name on the pipe and he was a Swiss colonist, an expert in mining, and an investor in the company. It is believed that Faldo came to Virginia twice. On his second trip he died of fever according to the secretary of the colony. With his death, the knowledge of a silver mine's location was evidently lost. The reference to him dying in combat with VA Indians is not accurate.
Excavations in the cellar yielded another locally produced tobacco pipe with the name of a prominent English colonist stamped into the stem with typeface. William Faldo was the name on the pipe and he was a Swiss colonist, an expert in mining, and an investor in the company. It is believed that Faldo came to Virginia twice. On his second trip he died of fever according to the secretary of the colony. With his death, the knowledge of a silver mine's location was evidently lost. The reference to him dying in combat with VA Indians is not accurate.
