Gail, et. al., I googled "kingsley beatty gibbs plantation" and got a lengthy Wikipedia write up on the Kingsley Plantation in Northern Florida. The original owner, Zephaniah Kingsley, apparently sold his plantation to his nephew, Kingsley Beatty Gibbs in 1839. A part of the original plantation is now a National Park. It is called Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve and is located on Fort George Island near Jacksonville. In my brief looking, I did not find any reference to the origin of the Beatty middle name. The nephew was a son of Zephaniah's sister (who married a Gibbs) so I would surmise that there was a Beatty in the near ancestry of Zephaniah and his sister. Perhaps their mother was a Beatty in England where they came from. You really need to read this Wikipedia article. This is one of the most fascinating stories about early southern plantations I have read. Old Zephaniah was quite a guy! Anyway, none of this helps Sheaniqua much. She probably knew of all this already. But, I will cc her email address with this information. BTW, unless you sent her a blind cc, she didn't get your message. You sent it to the BP-2000 list and she is not on the list, I don't believe. Les Beaty, L-20

Les, my google was not worth much. You got a great amount of information that is very interesting. Thanks for also letting me know that my email did not go through. No wonder I have trouble communicating with folks. Gail Beaty Ellis > From: lbeaty@q.com > To: bp2000@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:35:16 -0600 > CC: battysheaniqua@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: [BP2000] FW: James Beatty > > Gail, et. al., > > I googled "kingsley beatty gibbs plantation" and got a lengthy Wikipedia > write up on the Kingsley Plantation in Northern Florida. The original > owner, Zephaniah Kingsley, apparently sold his plantation to his nephew, > Kingsley Beatty Gibbs in 1839. A part of the original plantation is now a > National Park. It is called Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve and > is located on Fort George Island near Jacksonville. > > In my brief looking, I did not find any reference to the origin of the > Beatty middle name. The nephew was a son of Zephaniah's sister (who married > a Gibbs) so I would surmise that there was a Beatty in the near ancestry of > Zephaniah and his sister. Perhaps their mother was a Beatty in England > where they came from. > > You really need to read this Wikipedia article. This is one of the most > fascinating stories about early southern plantations I have read. Old > Zephaniah was quite a guy! > > Anyway, none of this helps Sheaniqua much. She probably knew of all this > already. But, I will cc her email address with this information. > > BTW, unless you sent her a blind cc, she didn't get your message. You sent > it to the BP-2000 list and she is not on the list, I don't believe. > > Les Beaty, L-20 > > Remember - To remove un-needed email text from your replys > ********************* > Visit Project website at: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bp2000/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~ > Visit Beatty Y-DNA Project at: http://www.beattydna.org/ > ********************* > Mailing List's Archives at: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/surname/b/bp2000.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BP2000-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message