This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2dWBAEB/76.89.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the reply. I have no doubt that Winfield was the name of the slave owner. However, my great grandfather was a free man of color in Ohio. My guess is that the plantation was in Virginia, and that his mother 'left', and migrated to Ohio, as so many other slaves did. I want to speak to any Winfields that owned plantations in Virginia. My guess is that this is where he was from.