A draft report of the most recent survey done by the County's Lost Towns Project indicates that a likely 17th c. building site has been localized at Hancocks as well as an Indian encampment site going back some 3,000 years. Wow!

During the year 2000, Friends of Hancock's Resolution (FOHR) is cooperating with the Maryland Historical Trust (MHT), the Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation (ACT), and the County's Lost Towns Project (a team of archaeologists employed by the County and led by the County Archaeologist, Al Luckenbach), to conduct the second phase of archaeological research at Hancock's Resolution. The first phase was conducted in 1998 into 1999 and was focused on the 14 acres immediately surrounding the Hancock farm buildings. The second phase takes that research a step further by focusing on three additional aspects:

1. The 12.5 acres of land adjacent to the core 14 acre, which the County purchased in 1998/99 to add to Hancock's Resolution
2. Detailed archival research to learn from the historical land records going back into the mid-1600's just what transpired on the land which was a part of the 409.5 acre farm that Hancock put together in 1793
3. Selected sampling (with the owner's permission) of areas in that 409.5 acres that research indicates could have particular historical interest.

As of this writing (May 2000), we are at the beginning stages of items 1 and 2 above. The first exciting note is that the archaeologist believes that a site dating back to the 1600's, early in Maryland's Colonial Period, may have been identified. More on-the-ground work is scheduled to either confirm or deny this. The results should be available towards the end of June or July.