Cathy....thanks so much. There was a David Davidson who died in James City Co. VA in 1687, per a surviving court order book record that mentioned his will (and he was married to a Sarah, who I SUSPECT was a Sarah Hunt or a Sarah Hamblin/Hamblen). Surviving "naturalization papers" dated 1686 show that this David Davidson was born in Holland. The Davidson land was in the part of James City Co., VA that became part of Charles City Co., VA in 1720 (just west of the Chickahominy River, in an area known as Pease Hill), and a deed record indicates that David Davidson had owned that land since at least 1682. There was a William Davidson who also died in James City Co., VA in 1687, per surviving records of the Bruton and Middleton Parishes. Per DNA testing on living Davidson males (combined with a "ton" of research), it seems certain that I am related to the family of the above-referenced David Davidson (and my DNA indicates that my Davidson family has a "Viking heritage"). I have no proof, however, as to whether David Davidson and William Davidson were related to each other. I also have no evidence that Mayor Robert Davidson (died 1739) was related to either man....but who knows? The referenced David Davidson had a son who was also named David, and this second/younger David Davidson, "Junior" died in Charles City, Co., VA in 1756 (and a Stephen Davidson was the executor of his will....per just a court order book record, and not a will itself). Other Davidsons in this family in Charles City Co., VA in the 1700s appear to have included men named Solomon, Ezekiel, Philemon, Edward (a couple of them), William (a couple of them) and yet a third and fourth David Davidson (one was born circa-1715, and the other one was born about 1762....and the younger one was apparently a son of Solomon Davidson). A male in my mother's Smith family also took the DNA test, and my maternal Smith family "traces back" to the Alexander Smith who was in Lancaster Co., VA by at least the 1650s, and who died in Middlesex Co., VA in 1696. Per my research, I MAY be a descendant of the John Smith in that family who married Sarah Waller, the youngest daughter of Judge Benjamin Waller and his wife Martha Hall of Williamsburg, VA. That is definitely the correct overall Smith family (that John Smith was a gg-grandson of the referenced Alexander Smith), but my research continues on whether that is truly my correct "direct line." My wife and I just walked around Colonial Williamsburg the other day, and we went by the home of Judge Benjamin Waller. We are so blessed to have that area restored and maintained for future generations to see! Thanks again. To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html