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The story goes that the parents of Joseph Francis were carrying him across a frozen lake or river in the Virginia/Maryland area in the 1740s when the ice broke. Joseph was saved by strangers and his parents were never found.
Joseph was probably married at least twice and had numerous children, many subsequently moving to Ohio. He had as many as 10 sons.
Several surnames including Vance, Jacobs, and Lawson, are matches to the Francis Y-DNA haplogroup E-M35, likely due to NPEs in the 1800s