Even still more better. I was reading an old newspaper article from the 1940s or so and in some interview..can't provide source...they talked about 150 A.D. and carthage and some hero of Shakespear ...the gist was that a group of people from MidEast were chased to Morocco and from there immigrated to Portugal and South Carolina..where in SC they owned quite a bit of the best land..but with slavery and discrimination they were forced to migrate again to the hills...what is interesting is that many suggestions about shipwrecks of Spanish and Portguese sailors..but DNA testing shows maternal lines carry the same markers for Syrian and Turkish and other blood..which means that women were involved from way back when..not just male sailors marrying (hopefully) native or immigrant women. This is speculatve of course...but there is a huge mystery here...possibly first non-Native settlers of US? mg