I agree with Patty. It doesn't look like anything familiar to me, and letters like that W seem like you would recall them. It's more likely that it was done completely by hand than that someone 'played' with a font.

If you have some calligraphic skill, you might make your own W, b and g, which seems like the most atypical letters in this sample. However, I presume your purpose is not to re-create this, but to identify the typeface to use for other purposes.

One that I know with at least a somewhat similar W is P22's Roanoke Script, and it even tries to reflect a style roughly from the Colonial era (or earlier).

You could look in Part 10 of the Script Font ID Guide for other Antique Handwriting fonts. Not sure what qualities you are looking for, but at least I know these are actually fonts.

Based on that sample, I would say the two l's are not identical, adding weight to the hand-drawn theory. The i connections are not identical either -- this is definitely hand-drawn lettering.

There are a few other earmarks indicating this is custom lettering and not a font:

- The wide looping descender on the g (which would not work in a font after another character with a descender).

- A similar case with the b. Both sides would collide with other tall characters.

- The b and u connect differently than other pairs.

- The W would be very awkward with short words or words that start with Wh (e.g., Why).

Also Williamsburg is refered to as "Historic Williamsburg" my guess its handwritting based on a historic document.

The original lettering logotype was done for Colonial Williamsburg and entended into a proprietary font for Colonial Willaimsburg by Michael Clark.

Hi, It's Michael Clark. The Williamsburg above is a digital rendering of the Original "Colonial Williamsburg" not Historic... I was given the original logo and extrapolated the font from the two words. The letters in W'burg are digitized as they were and there are no problems with letter fit or leading as was suggested. It is a proprietary font for in house use only.