This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HSB.2ACE/1656.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Jane, I guess that James Duncan would be: James Duncan 27, Farmer, wife and 2 children Moudlein, Farr, Sutherland, Scotland To Wilmington Nc on the Batchler of Leith Apr 1774 "James Duncan, Aged twenty seven years, by Trade a Farmer, married, hath two Children, one five years the other 9 Months old. Resided last at Mondle in the Parish of Farr in the Shire of Sutherland, upon the Estate of Sutherland, Intends to go to Wilmington in North Carolina; left his own Country because Crops failed him for several years, and among the last years of his labouring he scarce reaped any Crop; Bread became dear and the price of Cattle so much reduced that One Cows price could only buy a Boll [a measure of 6 bushels generally in Scotland] of Meal. That the People on the Estate of Sutherland were often supplied with meaI from Caithness, but the Farmers there had of late stopt the sale of their Meal, because it rendered them a much greater profit by Distilling. That he could find no Employment at home whereby he could support his Family. That he has very promising prospects by the Advices from his Friends in Carolina, as they have bettered their circumstances gr! eatly since they went there by their labours. Lands being cheap and good Provisions plenty, and the price of Labour very encouraging. " I have as sons Jacob, John, and James. Jacob stayed in Robeson county. John I don't know. James moved to Anson county. Have you found any connection with the Benjamin Leonard Duncan family in Bladen County? I haven't as yet found a link with my family. I am researching a David Duncan who was in some early Bladen County records also during the same time period.. Thanks Tom