Oh dear! I didn't mean to stir up a hornet's nest! Just got back from the Family History Center with the 1880 Census for Yates, Lake Co., MI. Albert Blanchard shows his birthplace as NY. He also shows his father (Alvin) as being born in NY (guess that means that ALVIN wasn't the one who arrived here from England after the Revolutionary War!). Albert's wife Mary and all their living children are listed; so the next stop is Lake County, MI 1870 Census. By the way, I found another Blanchard at Dover, Lake Co., MI: I also tried to make a more direct connection between Alvin and Luther/Calvin Blanchard of Acton, but just can't quite make it. Blanchard, Keeney(?)--I always get the page where the enumerator writes worse than I do!--a lumber laborer, age 29, born in "Ontario" (don't know if this means Canada or NY). Father and mother both born in England. Maybe somewhere someone will connect. Again, sorry to have "started something". Becky