I am literally dredging up old notes from my 'ancient' research, and the followin is what I have on Dodsons to America by ship. This came out of library research -- again, don't know if this will be any help, but before I pitch, I'm sharing: Date First Name Location Age 1652 Anne VA 1635 Benjamin VA 1718 Francis America 1774 Henry MD 23 1746 John America 1643 Thomas VA 1643 William America 1699 William America The following arrived in MD: 1652 John 1662 John 1663 Katherine Also, I just found in the VA archives (recently) that a ship Captain, Samuel Dodson, was being sued -- Do you Dodsons know who this person is? An unproven ancestor of mine has been proported to be Samuel Dodson b. ca 1675. Anyone have any clues on this person or the ship captain? Betty