Could you give please give more details? "Elizabeth Blair brought with her a slave named Betsy Blair . and Benjamin may have been the child of said slave ." DOES BENJAMIN HAVE A LAST NAME AND BIRTH YEAR ? Thus the store John and Betsy Blair, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY STORE? Which Of John's Plantations was the family of Patsy Living beside . JOHN WHO ? HIS LAST NAME? If Benjamin met Patsy there he may have been of mixed race and therefore the reason for the migration to south west Virginia and NC. Isn't there also a story about him having worked on building a plantation for a relative?? Jeanie --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail.