Mayflower stamp to be issued in 2020

Both of those subjects would make a great topical to collect.

Very  interesting that you have two very interesting ancestors.  I can trace an ancestor who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1783 after the War of Independence.  Might be a new topic for me.

david

Jamestown. Features in my Tobacco theme exhibit and has a couple of pages to itself. Named for King James VI of Scotland and Ist of England from 1603, He wrote the worlds first anti smoking treatise listing the moral and health reasons against, in his Counterblaste To Tobacco.
He appears on a stamp from Newfoundland in the 1930s and on more recent stamps from GB.
The Jamestown settlement got so involved in growing tobacco , their only valuable cash crop for trade in the early 1600s that they had little enough land growing food and at one point they almost starved . The Colony’s leader John Rolfe who married Pocahontas was responsible for the introduction of seeds of West Indian tobacco which was superior to the local variety.
Tobacco was introduced to England by Sir Walter Raleigh who had tried to found a settlement at Roanoake NC back in 1587 but by 1590 the failed colony had vanished.

Lots of scope here for a fine topical collection full of research possibilities to tell a story , or two !

That part of the family tree played a minor role in early US history.  From this same line I have Thomas Barker (7th great grandfather), who was married to Penelope Barker (search Edenton Tea Party if you want to know more).  Also, Clemont C. Clay, who actually married into the family, was both a USA and a CSA senator (important enough to have his portrait on some Confederate paper money); he spent a little time in prison on a charge of plotting to assassinate Lincoln (found to be innocent). 

The village of Ballater is about 8 miles from Queen Victoria’s Scottish summer Castle at Balmoral.
Quite a small population but rather a lot of elderly gents who look awfully like Edward VII ..................


but as as the Film Braveheart was a total  fiction and misrepresentation of 13th century Scottish and English history, I would not put much credence on any genealogical research which even mentions Braveheart. 

Wallace was a Knight who wore armour , not tartan , never painted his face blue ,and never seduced an English Princess .