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Subject: [DNA-R1B1C7] Introduction to List Blanchard
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 22:38:36 EDT

I am Decatur Blanchard, tested M222+ by EthnoAncestry. NUKXT on YSearch and
5031.70 at DNA-FP.

My earliest-known ancestor Benjamin Blanc/shard died in North Carolina in
1719 believing he lived in Virginia because the state line was not agreed on
until 1727. Benjamin and others claimed in NC Court to be Englishmen when
accused of settling their livestock on the Indian's lands.

Benjamin had two brothers Aaron and Ephraim living in North Carolina when he
died. The brothers were Quakers. There seems to be agreement among English
Blanc/shards that the origin of the name is Norman, yet none I know of are
claiming Norman descent.

Among the 100+ members of the Blanchard Family DNA group administered by
John Chandler there are at least nine distinct DNA groupings. Three members
(constituting one of the nine groups) of those trace to Benjamin through his son
Benjamin by three researchers searching independently. I am identified as
3362 in the Blanchard Family DNA project.

I have not been able to get beyond Benjamin (died 1719) for more than 25
years. So far there have been very few Englishmen tested and none that I know of
are R1b1c7. All the NC Blanchards I know of are Protestant if they have
expressed any preference at all. The male line married surnames Bryan, Ward,
Drew, Pollock, Martin, Burch and Hinton as far as I can take the line. My
maternal line is Bryan, Crawford, Peele, Peele and is U5b2 (FGS).

Since I will be 78 in November I may not learn my origins, English or
otherwise. There seem to be two plausible (to me) possibilities. One is that my
ancestor who took, or was given, the name Blanshard or Blanchard was before
surnames a part of the clade that included U. Neil. The other is that an Irishman
took the name Blanc/shard when he married a Blanc/shard woman with an
inheritance.

The Blanchard name appears in Virginia as early as 1619 as an original
settler of the Berkeley Plantation. This Blanchard likely perished along with most
other early Virginia colonists. Next I find a Robert Blanchard who received
a land grant in 1683 for importing two persons. This is interesting because my
Benjamin named one of his sons Robert.

So far not enough people have tested. I shall follow this list with great
interest.

Good hunting,

Decatur Blanchard
R1bc7 and U5b2 (FGS)





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