In a message dated 9/7/00 12:11:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, JudeofOh@aol.com writes: << James Maynard was banished from the west of England to the Barbados in 1685 and others. >> A James Maynard was convicted for participation in the Monmouth's Rebellion of 1685 in England. He was convicted before Chief Justice Jefferies of the Court of Oyer and Terminer for Dorset, Somerset and Devon for waging war against the King and sentenced to be transported to the Americas (along with many others). His name appears on a list that was shipped on the Jamaica Merchant on 9 December 1685 for Barbados, landed and sold there in March 1886. He is listed as age 22, a plowman. He also appears on Lists of Convicted Rebels and was sold to Nicholas Prideaux in Barbados. No further records found. There were quite a few Maynards in Barbados in the 1700s. However, after exhaustive research by several researchers, we were never been able to connect any of them to the Maynards of middle NC and later to the ones who moved up to Wilkes Co., NC; mainly, because the ones in NC were in place during the same time as most of those in Barbados. Ed Todd