Hi List members - Last week, I took a little R&R and spent a few days in northeastern VT, the so-called Northeast Kingdom. This includes the counties of Essex, Caledonia, and Orleans. Betsy Blanchard Burr reported to the List this spring about descendants of Benjamin 5 Blanchard of Hollis, NH who moved to Peacham, Caledonia Co., in the 1780s; this Benjamin being a descendant of Thomas B. I see also that Vince Falter mentioned Peacham in his 15 July post about Blanchards who moved from there to IL in the late 1850s. Last year, Sherry Gould posted quite a bit of information about some of these Peacham families. By the way, these examples were found using the Index-Line Databases (plug). Once you go north from St. Johnsbury, you begin to wonder what attracted people to this part of the state; quite mountainous with few cleared fields for pastures or crops though they may, after all these years, have become overgrown. I believe that some of the Loyalists fled to Canada through this region and today, it seems that once you cross the border, the land looks much more favorable for agriculture. We took our 2 young grandsons across to Coaticook, the first village of any size in this part of southern Quebec. I found 81 Blanchards in the local phonebook but this covers all the communities in the neighborhood of Sherbrooke, 35 miles further north. There were only 3 Blanchard listings for Coaticook and since none of these was a business address, I didn't have the nerve to barge in on a private residence. Not much genealogy here but thought those of you with connections to this part of VT might be interested. Fletch