A theory on Achilles Burgess
I had been doing some research and given that he has an African YDNA signature, yet was a free man and had physically Europid descendants, that he might have been an Atlantic Creole/Melungeon:
These were freed slaves and indentured servants of European, West African, and Native American ancestry. Many of them intermarried with their English neighbors, adopted English surnames, and even owned slaves.
Such a situation sounds very plausible.
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Re: A theory on Achilles Burgess
Seth Reeder 5/07/10