Does anyone know where Thomas Blair's plantation was located in Accomack 
County?
A white woman servant named Esther Perkins had a number of mixed-race 
children on that plantation about 1700. Her descendants mixed with whites 
and other light-skinned families over the years and formed communities in 
West Tennessee and Louisiana in the early nineteenth century--called 
Portuguese or Indian because they did not have African American culture. 
There were several trials over whether they should be allowed to vote. The 
persons doing the DNA testing are wondering if the plantation was on the 
border with Northampton or perhaps the family married while moving through 
Northampton because they have the DNA of the PERKINS family of Accomack 
County as well as that of the DRIGGERS family of Northampton.
Paul Heinegg

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