It grew out of a conversation I had with Pat Noonan.

The book, of course, called for determining the cross sites.

The map has a legend that reads: “To the crosses hath bin discoverd/What beyond is by relation.”

Smith went mostly by water in a craft resembling the fat, double-ended Navy lifeboats of recent memory. He called it both a shallop and a barge.

In March 2009, I delivered a report to Charlie Stek.

In the fall of 2015 three things came together: The discovery of an original cross was made public; I got a partner in Connie Lapallo; and Joel Dunn sent me a Conservancy check.  

We had a sit-down meeting of all concerned in November 2015, at the Chesapeake Conservancy headquarters in Annapolis, Md.

Connie and I submitted our design, it was accepted: footstones of pure Georgia gray granite.