In a message dated 8/21/99 7:22:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, NCDUPLIN-D-request@rootsweb.com, Colleen Campbell Taylor writes: << I am researching my husband's family and they had many of their beginnings in Duplin County, North Carolina. Is anyone else out there researching Roger SNELL, Sr. and his descendants? Roger was born in 1656 in Duplin County and died 1708. His son, Roger SNELL married Ann PICKERING. Their daughter Ann SNELL KING BLACKMAN McCLENDON is the line my husband descends from -- both the KING and BLACKMAN line. Is this Roger SNELL descended from Barnabas SNELL? >> Colleen, I don't think you will find that Roger Snell, Sr. was born in Duplin County. It did not exist at that time. He would more likely have been the Roger Snell who can be found in the records of Perquimans County during the time period you mention. In the 1690s, Roger Snell made a deed of gift to either Jonathan Taylor or his wife or both in Perquimans. I've wondered what the relationship might have been. I think that Taylor descendants made the same migration eventually to Duplin County about 50 years later. I would be interested in sharing and working with anyone who has information on the Taylors of Duplin or the Snells of the early period in Perquimans. Bill Linder Arlington, Virginia