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From: (Floyd L. Davidson)
Subject: Re: Most recent common ancestors
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:27:42 -0900
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("Roy Stockdill") wrote:
>
>Yes, but do any of them have British ancestors, otherwise what's the
>point of this debate stuttering on? Doesn't it belong on an
>anthropological list somewhere?

Well... here in Barrow in fact there *are* a lot of Eskimos
(Inupiat Eskimos) with English ancestors. Most of them by way
of Boston, in New England. ;-)

Beginning in the middle 1840's, when the whaling fleets
discovered the Western Arctic population of Bowhead whales,
there were an increasing number of whalers, mostly from Boston
and mostly of English ancestry, who came through the Bering
Straits to hunt in the Arctic Ocean. And Barrow was the point
of land with most access to the migrating whales, hence more
whalers stopped here than anywhere (with the possible exception
of Point Hope, a few hundred miles west of Barrow and also on a
point of land putting it close to the whale migration routes).

There are names here such as Leavitt, Brower, and Hopson that
came from the whalers. It was not uncommon for a whaling
captain to out live 2 or 3 wives here, and produce more than 12
children.

--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>;
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

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