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 brick dwellings in the previous century, which had been built by Kemp and Berkeley at Jamestown.

In addition to the brick residences in Virginia in the seventeenth century, there were some public buildings constructed of this material. By contract with the Colonial Government, Theophilus Hone, Mathew Page, and William Drummond agreed to raise a fort at Jamestown, to have a frontage of brick extending at least one hundred and fifty feet. After some delay, this fort was built. When Clayton visited the Colony, he found that the structure had been erected in the shape of a half-moon. In the latter part of the century, there was a large house of public entertainment in New Kent known as the Brick House. Some of the county court-houses besides the one at Jamestown were constructed of this material; the court-house in Gloucester was built of brick, and so was that in Middlesex.