RootsWeb: Melungeon-L Re: [Melungeon] Looking Jewish

RootsWeb: Melungeon-L Re: [Melungeon] Looking Jewish: "Not the Jewish issues, but the Dodson/Dotson connection.
Mine, Tabitha [married Daniel (de la Chaumette) Shumate--his fifth wife and
the only one who survived him, in Fauquier County, VA (now W.Va)] had a
Dodson/Dotson ancestor who claimed to have been a Roanoke survivor. Said he
and other boys were away hunting and came back to find the outpost
decimated, everyone dead. Said he was raised by Indians and came out of the
woods 15 years later, into Jamestown, but wasn't believed.

Only saw it once, on a set of maybe 7-8 mimeographed sheets. up in Ft.
Wayne's genealogical library. At the time I didn't know anything about
Roanoke, or that it was simply assumed that everyone had perished. But he
had to come from somewhere.

There was no Dodson/Dotson on the passenger list, but they didn't list the
names of servants, and don't know if any later visit might have dropped
anyone off.

Although Tabitha was a Dodson/Dotson, and the paper was prepared by someone
writing about that family, perhaps the ggrandfather who the story was about
was the father of a girl who married a Dodson/Dotson, and the family
misremembered ... as so often happens.

Anyway, that's family lore for you. Endlessly fascinating and frustratingly
difficult to forget and move on from."