Margaret: Realize you must not be looking at American Blairs. Located the Brice Blair reference recalled from earlier Blair searches -- for what it might be worth to someone, here goes: ROWAN COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA TAX LISTS 1757-1800, Jo White Linn, compiler (1995) privately printed: page 9: Rowan Co NC Residents 1746-1753 - Brice Blair p. 17: 1759 Rowan Co NC Militia List of Capt.Alexander Osborn's Militia, Lt. John McWhorter, Ensign Zebulon Brevard - Brice BLARE p. 45: 1760 Rowan Co NC Militia List of Capt. John Kerr, Lt. Francis Lock, Ensign Robt. Patton, Sgt. James Armstrong; Sgt. Robert Luckie; (Corporal) Ebrem Hood January 11, 1760 - Private Brice Blair.