Britain to shed light on ‘founder of USA’
With the backing of Church officials, the experts hope to take a DNA sample from the skeleton of Elizabeth Gosnold Tilney, buried in a graveyard in Suffolk, eastern England, in the early 1600s.
She is thought to have been the sister of Bartholomew Gosnold, a Suffolk native who sailed to America in 1602 and later helped found the country’s first English-speaking colony, Jamestown in Virginia.
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