Hi Daryl I know of a McPhadrick Lamont who arrived in Charleston in 1711 as an indentured servant. That sounds a little like a fixed-term slave, someone bound for a fixed period, then free. His indenture lasted 7 years, then he headed off for the hills in North Carolina. It's not clear to me where he was indentured, but looking at a map of the USA, it could have been in Kentucky. Are the North Carolina hills to the West of North Carolina? I don't think this would have been your ancestor, but being a McPhadrick Lamont he was probably closely related to the McCaragan Lamonts, and it's plausible that a group of immigrants from Argyllshire targeted a general area in North America to migrate to because they were aware that some of their kinfolk had gone there. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: dna-r1b1c7-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dna-r1b1c7-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Daryl W. Smith Sent: 24 May 2011 06:43 To: dna-r1b1c7@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [R-M222] DNA Mystery He was off by one marker on the Carrigan DNA.