This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bolling Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xUB.2ACE/67.973.1070.1075.1090.1.2 Message Board Post: This probably going to offend someone but it might well be that Elizabeth Blair brought with ehr a slave named Betsy Blair and Benjamin may have been the child of said slave .Thus the store John and Betsy Blair, Which Of John's Plantations was the family of Patsy Living beside . If Benjamin met Patsy there he may have been of mixed race and therefore the reasonm 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??