In a message dated 3/6/2002 2:30:07 AM Eastern Standard Time, JalilM@aol.com writes: << I have BETTS of African ancestry, Alamance County, North Carolina in my family tree. Could we possibly have a connection? Jalil >> Jalil, Thanks for your message. I note quite a few BETTS of African ancestry, but I find no connection other than they might have taken the Betts name after they were freed. My Betts line had left Northumberland Co. and gone to Halifax Co. by then, and I am sure quite a few from the original progenitor had gone into NC. Karen