What follows is for our British cousin, Ken. I love his country so hopefully this will be of some help.This is copied from a report called "The Name and Family of Dotson" compiled by the "Media Research Bureau" of Washington, DC. I received this report from another person who had received it from someone else, so I have no information as to its validity. The report has other bits and pieces of different Dodson/Dotson lines that are valid, but no new information on America Dodson/Dotsons that has not been published elsewhere. “In the latter part of the fifteenth century, one Dotson or Dodson (Christian name unknown) resided in County Cornwall, and by his wife, a daughter of John Hey or Haye, he was the father of Thomas Dotson or Dodson, who married a Miss Molyne or Molines and had issue by her of a son named John, who was the father by his wife, Margaret Enys, of John, Thomas, Alice, Margaret and Jane. Of these, Thomas married Elizabeth, daughter of William Piper, and had issue by her of Robert, Samson (or Sampson), and Mary, of whom the first was the father in the early 17th century by his wife, Thomazine, daughter of Francis Buller, of Thomas, Nicholas, Elizabeth and Mary. Robert had no further issue by his second wife, Mary or Margaret, daughter of Sir Hugh Pollard.” “Thomas Dodson, eldest son and heir of Robert, above mentioned, married Elizabeth, daughter of Elias Wills, in 1641 and had issue by her of Thomas, Susan, and another son, whose name is not know. Of these, Thomas married Elizabeth, daughter of William Medley, of Hertfordshire, and was the father by her of Thomas, Sedley, Ann, Mary, Johanna, and Grace, of whom the first was married in 1684 to Mary, daughter of John Buller, and was the father of Thomas, John, Mary, Anna, Margaret, Thomasine, and Sarah, of whom the first left at least two children, Mary and John Dodson.” “Samson or Sampson Dodson, Younger son of Thomas and Elizabeth (nee Piper) Dodson or Dotson, had two children (names unknown), one of whom was the father of Thomas Dodson, a member of Parliament for London in 1708, who was the father of another Thomas, who had at least one son, named John.” “The brothers Richard and Thomas Dodson were living at Kirkby Overblows, in England, before 1589. Of these Richard had a son named Miles, who married Lucy, daughter of Peter Cooke, and was the father by her of a son named Peter, who was the father by his wife, Alice Nettleton, of Thomas who mentions in his will (dated 1706) his nephew, Albany Dodson, who married Eleanor, daughter of Edward Beckwith, and left a son named Albany.” “Of the Sussex County line of the family in England, the Reverend Jeremiah Dodson was living about the middle of the seventeenth century, and his cousin, Sir William Dodson, was councilman and elderman of London about the same time. Of these, the Rev Jermiah Dodson left issue of Jeremiah, John, and William. Sir William and the Rev Jeremiah were both nephews of William Dodson, of Westminster England, who was married in 1632 to Margaret, daughter of Thomas Stockwood. Sir William had a brother named John; and there is also record of a family in County Middlesex, England, before 1689, consisting of four brothers, Jeremiah, James, Daniel and John, who are also believed to have been first cousins of Sir William Dodson, of London.” “A John Dodshon or Dodson was living in Countyt Durham about the end of the 17th century. He was the son of Christopher Dodshon and the grandson of Nicholas Dodshon of Strauton. John was the father by his wife Frances of a son named Nicholas, who married Frances Foster and had issue by her of a son named John and of several daughters.” Betty