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John Dodd(son) |
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An Immigrant |
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0___ 1571 |
Great Neck, Yorkshire, England  [1] |
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Male |
 Immigration |
0___ 1607 |
Jamestown, Virginia [2] |
- the ship, "Susan Constant"
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0___ 1652 |
Jamestown, Virginia [1] |
| Person ID |
I5538 |
The Hennessee Family |
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Re: John Dodson in Jamestown.
Home: Surnames:Dodson Family Genealogy Forum
Re: John Dodson in Jamestown.
Posted by: Gene Rooks [Gene Ballentine Rooks, August 29, 1932 - April 10, 2014, source: http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Gene-Rooks&lc=4200&pid=170672730&mid=5932638]
Date: December 17, 1998 at 18:08:25
In Reply to: John Dodson in Jamestown. by JERRY LEHMAN DODSON of 2180
Jerry, this has been answered before but bears repeating. There was NO John DODSON who arrived in Jamestown in 1607. There was a John DODS, a laborer/soldier, who did arrive on the Susan Comfort with Capt. John Smith, bought land, and was still alive at a 1624 census with a wife Jane, and NO Children listed.
There is not one shred of evidence for these supposed sons Jesse and William, although there was a William Dodson who emigrated later. At the present time, there is no conclusion as to who are the parents of Charles DODSON1649/1704 who died in Richmond Co. I think personally that a Thomas DODSON who died in Westmoreland Co. in 1670 is a possibility, but a copy of his will is needed. If anyone has uncovered any new data, please post it here for us.
Gene in Gotha
http://genforum.genealogy.com/dodson/messages/440.html
24 Jul 2007
http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?name=dodson
Surname: Dodson
This unusual surname is a variant form of Dodson, itself a patronymic of the Middle English given name "Dodde, Dudde", from the Olde English pre 7th Century personal byname "Dodda, Dudda", ultimately from a Germanic root "dudd, dodd", "something rounded", used to denote a short, rotund man, or possibly a bald one, from "dod", to make bare, cut off. One Aelfweard Dudd appears in the Old English Byname Register for Hampshire, circa 1030, and an Aluric Dod in the Domesday Book of 1086 for orset. The patronymic has the unusual distinction of also being first recorded in Domesday (see below). Further early patronymic forms include: Aeluric Doddes, noted in Feudal Documents from the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, and Magota Dodson, entered in the 1379 Poll Tax Returns of Yorkshire. In the modern idiom the patronymic takes seven variant forms: Dods, Dodds, Dadds, Dodson, Dudson, Dodding and Dotson, the last mentioned being particularly well recorded in Cornwall. An early settler in the New World Colonies was Edward Dodson, aged 21 yrs., who sailed from London on the "John", bound for St. Christophers, Barbados, in October 1635. A Coat of Arms granted to a family of the name is on a black shield a gold chevron between three gold catharine wheels, the Crest being the head of Janus couped at the neck proper. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Aluinus Dodeson, which was dated 1086, in the Domesday Book of Hertfordshire, during the reign of King William 1, known as "William the Conqueror", 1066 - 1087. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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- The Dodsons of Virginia and West Virginia can trace their origins to John Dods, who departed London aboard the Susan Constant on December 19, 1606 along with Captain John Smith. The Susan Constant, along with her sister ships, the Discovery and the Godspeed, took the long route around the Canary Islands arriving on the Virginia coast on may 6, 1607. The ships were driven inland by a storm and they took refuge in the area that is now known as Hampton Roads, Virginia. They then sailed up the James River landing at Jamestown. John Dods was listed as an labouror on the passenger list for original 105 settlers of Jamestown. He was also a soldier in the expeditions against the Indians. John was born in England in 1588 and was 18 years old when he arrived at Jamestown. He married Jane Dier, one of the 57 women sent to Jamestown from England aboard the ships Marmaduke, Warwick, and Tiger in 1621, as brides for the single males at Jamestown; Jane was the youngest of the women and was said to be 15 or 16 when she arrived in VA. (The source of the information concerning Jane Dier is from William & Mary College Quarterly, January 1991 by David R. Ransome, " Wives for Virginia, 1621")
John and Jane survived the hardships of winter, starvation and the Indian massacre that took the lives of the majority of the original Jamestown settlers and went on to prosper as a member of the Land of Neck community with the status of Original Settlers . The census taken by the Virginia Company of London in the years 1624 and 1625 list John Dods and his wife Jane as living in the Land Of Neck village along with over forty other individuals. (The Historical Journal, 43, 2 (2000) @2000 Cambridge University Press. Vilage Tensions In Early Virginia: Sex, Land, and Status At the Neck Of Land In The 1620s. David R. Ransome.
It is believed that John Dodds and Jane had two sons and in naming his sons John probably used the popular practice of the day, known as patronymics . Patronymics describes the act of creating a new name for a male members of the family by adding the suffix son to the fathers name. If this is the case the name Dodson stood for the Son of Dod.)
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- The Dodsons orginate from the Jamestown colony and to the orginal John Dodd.
John Dodd(son) came to America from England aboard the Susan Constant, commanded by Captain Christopher Newport. There were two other ships on this voyage, the Goodspeed, with Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold and the Discovery, with Capt. John Ratcliffe. They saw the Virginia Capes on April 26, 1607. After exploring the waters of Hampton Roads they proceeded up a broad river about thirty-two miles. They named this river the James. After exploring the river, Capt Newport left one hundred and four to form a settlement, and sailed to England.
Due to the poor location of the colony and the Indians, by September there were only forty-six survivors. The colony which had been named Jamestown in honor of King James, was the site of disease, starvation and internal problems, however our John Dodd(son) survived. After a period of twelve years and more than eighteen hundred immigrants having come from England to Jamestown, there still were only six hundred colonists surviving.
In the year 1619 a ship brought over to Jamestown eighty women as prospective wives. The colonist could get a wife, with her permission, by paying her transportation in the amount of one hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco. It is not known for sure whether John Dodson bought a wife or married an indian wife, however he is known to have two sons - Jesse and William. There may have been other children, one of whom may have been Benjamin. Jesse was born about 1621 and William about 1623. - Diane Nicholson Smith More on Dodson
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- 9 Jun 2007
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.dodson/1689.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx
Re: Dodson/Eagle Plume
DLowWesco (View posts) Posted: 11 Apr 2007 8:39AM
Again, that apostrophe on Dodds' or Dods' (I've seen both spellings) was an old English abbreviation for "son," like any other contraction. Apostrophes mean some letters are omitted. The apostrophe in can't, for ex., shows "no" is left out of cannot. (I have 4 degrees in English.) John from Jamestown who arrived on the Susan Constant is a Dodson.
We have a couple issues going on:
1. Expectations of complete documentation in modern style for an early 17th c. person not of noble birth (John Dods'/on was a laborer and probably illiterate). We're lucky to have as much as there is.
2. Expectations that Dodsons have no non-white heritage. Native genealogy, for ex., does not look like English genealogy. These folks were not having baptismal and marriage records recorded in court. Laborers were not first in line for English brides. Who else is around?
3. All the geography and timing and what records do exist fit the circumstance.
Having said all this, and I've done research in Va., I've had academic articles published (one on Langston Hughes is forthcoming fr. a press at Wash. College in Maryland this mo., including discussion of his triracial heritage), and I'm 85% convinced John and Jane were grandparents to Chas. Dodson--I have to keep an open mind. I want all the information out there possible.
Please let's keep this open discussion going. Colonial history is really interesting. Do you realize DNA is showing many old African American families descend on the matrilineal side from Irish women? Check out Paul Henig's website and Henry Gates' recent African heritage shows on PBS.
Reply-To: "Church & School Depot"
From: "Church & School Depot"
To: "Andra Hayes"
References: <20030421221612.28411.qmail@web14205.mail.yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: John Dods Question.....1606ish
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:12:37 -0400
Hi Andi. How much information can we gleen from four centuries ago? The same questions you have regarding Jane may also confirm her Indian identity. I do not know. I offer sourced-information and suggest the reader further their own research. Am delighted and grateful for your contribution...D
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From: "Andra Hayes"
To:
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 6:16 PM
Subject: John Dods Question.....1606ish
Dear David,
A quick observation.....
The John Dods, Jane Eagle Plum information was interesting since I enjoy Native American geno info.
But I found this: http://englishamerica.home.att.net/spls/607va003.htm
John, indeed, came over on the boat with Capt. Smith. But I question if Jane was actually the Chief's daughter. I checked the other passenger lists, she's not on them. Do you know any more about that story? Do you have info on Chief Eagle Plum? or Jane or John?
Thanks,
Andi
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- A Listing of Early Dodson or Dotson Immigrants to America... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvpioneers/dodsonearlyimmigrants.html
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- Centuries-old slate discovered at Jamestown dig[VA]
AP ^ | 08 June 2009 | ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON
Posted on Monday, June 08, 2009 2:42:02 PM by BGHater
Archaeologists have pulled a 400-year-old slate tablet from what they think was an original well at Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
The slate is covered with faint inscriptions of local birds, flowers, a tree and caricatures of men, along with letters and numbers, according to Preservation Virginia, which jointly operates the dig site with the National Park Service. It was found at the center of James Fort, which was established in 1607 along the James River in eastern Virginia.
Research director William Kelso said the inscriptions were made with a slate pencil on the 4-inch-by-8-inch slate. The writings were wiped off, but they left grooves on the surface, he said.
"There were things written over things, written over things," Kelso said.
Researchers at NASA Langley put the slate through three-dimensional digital analysis so they could decipher its pictures and text. The imaging system normally is used to inspect materials for aerospace use.
An eagle and a heron appeared on the slate, along with three types of plants, which haven't yet been identified. A depiction of lions--the British armorial sign in the early 1600s--indicates that the writer could have been a government official, Kelso said.
The phrase "A minon of the finest sorte" also appears on the slate, and Kelso said "minon" may have been an alternate spelling of "minion," possibly referring to a cannon, slave or servant.
The artifact shows the high level of interest the English settlers had in the New World's flora and fauna, Kelso said. The archaeology team thinks that someone probably started the artwork and writing in England, and added to the slate over time after arriving in the new colony of Virginia.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailypress.com ...
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; jamestown; virginia
This computer-enhanced photo highlights simple drawings of birds and people that were etched on a slate tablet recently excavated by archaeologists in Jamestown, Virginia, America's first permanent English settlement.
The rare inscribed slate, believed to be 400 years old, was found in a well that archaeologists think may have been dug by Capt. John Smith, Jamestown's best known leader.
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- Reference American Pub.W. Vol 23, pp: 114-18, Richmond County Deed Book, Book III, p. 57, dated 2 August 1700 and "Tyler's Quarterly", Vol. 24, pp.: 177-119. Colonized Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.
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- Artifacts found at Jamestown, the original English Settlement in Virginia... http://www.historicjamestowne.org/news/2009_slate.php
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