Becky wrote: > Is there any indication that descendants of Peter or John, who stayed in > England, migrated to the United States and/or Canada after the Revolutionary > War? This question is a bit premature. The wonderfully detailed stories you hear about the Huguenot refugee "Pierre Jean Blanchard" and his family, their flight from one or more parts of France, settlement in one or more parts of England, and eventual safe haven of some of them in the New World seem to be the products of vivid imagination. There is no known evidence that the emigrant Thomas Blanchard was born anywhere other than Hampshire, where he first appears on the records at the baptisms of his children in the (Anglican) church there. There is a hint that he may have had a brother or cousin named John, since a John Blanchard appears in the same parish at the baptisms of *his* children after Thomas left. (Then again, who here *doesn't* have a brother or cousin named John??) (Well, ok, *I* don't.) In any case, there is no known evidence that Thomas was related to the Joseph Blanchard who died in Boston in 1637, aside from the coincidence of surname. To be honest, there isn't even any evidence that Joseph was related to the non-Thomas-descended Blanchards of Massachusetts (Deacon John and William) that are conventionally referred to as the "Joseph" branch. > If so, that would explain how our ancestor, Alvin Blanchard (unknown dob and > location), who appears in Wayne County, NY circa 1827 (unconfirmed as yet) > when his son Albert Alvin was born, is "related to Luther Blanchard; the first > Colonial wounded in the Revolution at Concord Bridge . . . a great or grand- > nephew" according to family legend. There's no reason why he couldn't literally be a grandnephew of Luther (except that I don't know of any grandnephews by that name). My own line goes through Luther's brother Calvin, so I'd be very much interested in finding out how Alvin ties in. John