I have listed these Blair sites before on the list. There are a lot of Blair names there. Hope this is helpful. http://rdblair.mtx.net/blair.htm http://members.home.net/jcblair/query.htm http://members.xoom.com/granwan/blairoutline.html http://www.citynet.net/mostwanted/bl.htm http://home.sprynet.com/~srblair/homepage.htm http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/l/a/Benjie-G-Blair/COL7-0012.html My Blair's: Looking for these families.   Would appreciate any help and am willing to trade information.  It is said that these immigrants were placed in areas with names such as their previous locations which make me think Belfast.  They were there in 3 months range before March of 1766.  They were probably Presbyterian and had to get letter saying they were poor Protestants.  My gaps are the ship and their place of birth.  My Grandmother always told me I was Scots/Irish.  If you have some time and would see what you can find any reference to these folks, I would be glad to offer the same here in the US.  Thank you in advance for your consideration.      Guy Thomas    Houston, TX    281 444-1366    FAX 281 893-3475    [email protected]        Blair, George and William, I am searching for information on George (b 1750) and William Blair (b 1739) in Ireland.   Arrived Charleston South Carolina in March or before 1766, possibly late 1765.   They were Irish Protestants (possibly Presbyterians) that came and received Bounty Land in Belfast Township of Granville Country, South Carolina. Have copies of original land grants dated March 1766. They are listed in the Council Journals as having lately arrived and awarded the land grants.               George Blair b 1750, d 1787                                                            + Barsheba                                                                    Children    Christopher  b 1780 d 1829 Edgefield Dist., SC                                                   Gabriel                                                                                 Barsheba                      Christopher                                                                    + Sarah                                                                        Children    G W (Washington)  b1808 SC, d 1849 MS                                                                                   Hazle              SC                                                                      Elizabeth         SC                                                                           James             b 1814 SC                                                                       Pulaski (P L)    b 1849 SC                                                                                Sarah               SC                                                                     Christopher       SC                                                                             Columbus b1824   SC                                                         These Blair's went from SC to AL and then settled in Scooba, Kemper County, MS.         Subj:     George and William Blair March 1766 Land Grants    Charlotte as you may remember I could not find a ship these dudes came on.  This man sent me some very interesting information below.  I've also had the Belfast Newsletter Index sent to the Clayton Library where I've gotten some information to look up. I'm also going to get the Newsletters sent here for 1765 and 1766.  They have them at Notre Dame to lend.  Any way I thought you might think it is interesting. GuyT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Subj:     Re: Blair's of SC        Greetings from Gainesville, Florida! I found your information on the Blair family in SC very interesting. I haven't checked the list of land grants for exact dates, but if your Blair's received land in March 1766, they may have come in the Ship Falls, Captain Simon Robinson, from Londonderry (SC Gazette, March 18, 1766) or possibly the Ship Prince of Wales, Captain James Eggar, from Belfast which arrived March 29, 1766 (SC Gazette, April 1, 1766).  I couldn't find anything more in the newspaper about the passengers on the Falls, if any, but there are two advertisements by William Beatty about the Prince of Wales. Just arrived in the Ship Prince of Wales, James Eggar, Master, William Beatty, Merchant and Line-Draper, from Belfast, who has to dispose of the Times of Twenty-one Servants, among whom are Nine Women, Seamstresses, Knitters, and Two Cooks, some Young Men, among whom are Mechanicks, who can write good Hands, and can be recommended to the Purchaser. He has likewise to sell, a Parcell of Linen, well manufactured, and bleached in the best and safest Manner.  Enquire for said Beatty, at Messrs. Torrans, Poaug & Co. Store, or at his Lodgings at Captain Foskey's, in Church Street.  (SC Gazette, April 1, 1766) To be sold, the Indentures of a few Servants from the North of Ireland, who have Certificates of their good Behaviour from their Infancy, and as the Ship they came in is near ready for Sea, they will be disposed of on very reasonable Terms by Torrans, Poaug and Company.  (SC Gazette, May 6, 1766) Too early. There is an advertisement in the Belfast News Letter, January 3, 1766 by Mussenden, Bateson & Co., owners of the ship Prince of Wales, that she would sail for Charles-Town in SC on January 8 and all passengers should be on board. I,William Beatty, being now ready to depart for South-Carolina on board the ship Prince of Wales, my son William Beatty Jr. will carry on the Business in my Absence.  (Belfast News Letter, January 17, 1766) Sunday evening sailed the Prince of Wales with Passengers for Charles-Town in South-Carolina.  (Belfast News Letter, January 21, 1766) The Prince of Wales would have drawn passengers, redemptioners and servants from the hinterland of Belfast -- parts of Antrim, Down and probably Armagh. "William Beatty of Belfast, just returned from the Province of South-Carolina, (now the most flourishing Province in America)" advertised that he would have a vessel for Charles-Town, SC to sail November 20 from Belfast.  (Belfast News Letter, October 6, 1766)  He announced that he would be in Ballynahinch, Lurgan and Dromore each one day a week to meet persons going to SC. (New Letter, October 14, 1766)  It is likely these were the places the Prince of Wales emigrants left in January. There is another ad in the Belfast News Letter, February 18, 1766 regarding the safe arrival of the Countess of Donegall, Captain Strawbridge, at Charles-Town SC on November 22, 1765 with a testimonial signed on behalf of the passengers by one William Cressle.  [When did he get the SC bounty and land grant?  This might be a clue to who else came on the Countess.] Richard MacMaster