Jim Gulledge, Author

WHAT CHER AND I HAVE IN COMMON

By April 1666 the city fathers of Edinburgh, Scotland were exporting " lusty beggars, dissolute women , spongers, gypsies , vagabonds and others 'not fitt to stay in the kingdome' ," to Virginia. The unfit were to be shipped off by Captain James Gibson on The Phoenix of Leith. Onboard that ship:

my 8th maternal great grandfather, John E. Ferguson, 14 yrs.

Well... at least he got here.