Bartholomew Stovall, fatherless as an infant and orphaned at the age of ten, was born during the worst of times in English history. Despite the seemingly insurm

Ancestors include: Captain Edmond Scarborough (1584-1634) of North Walsham, England; and Virginia -- John Davis, a Revolutionary War soldier of Virginia; and hi

This revised, expanded version of an article originally published in American Genealogy Magazine, discusses the many theories about the origin of the Black Dutc