Brian would be very interested in what you have. I am forwarding this to the list as we have some who are reseaching this area of the Country. Barbie At 09:31 PM 9/28/99 -0700, you wrote: >Hi >I was reading your origin page and found it interesting that some Busby's >were mentioned as cotton millers. I live in an old plantation house that >was built around 1720 in Barbados W.I. >This house was built by a John Busby m. Sarah and it was a large cotton >plantation at the time. It stopped being a cotton plantation in the early >1800's Four generations of Busby's lived here. His great grand daughter >retained the house when she married a Bynoe and the house has been in the >Bynoe family ever since, my wife is her great-great grand daughter. > Many English families came here before America, tried Cotton and Tobacco > farming and when they did not have much luck moved on to mainly Virginia > and North Carolina.There is quite a lot of famous American names that > were of Barbadian origin, two of the signers of the American Declaration > of Independence , Two Civil War Generals (Meade and Lee) The Austins and > Dallas families of Texas, Benjamin Bynoe was the ships doctor on the HMS > Beagle and Darwin's travelling companion. Lastly this was the only place > in the world that George Washington travelled to outside of North > America. He was only 17 at the time. >If you are interested I will dig up the info I have on the Busby's of >Barbados. >Regards >Brian Pennington