http://forebears.io/surnames/Douglas#nations2014
Country Incidence Frequency
Jamaica  7,175         1: 379
Scotland 6,228         1: 851

Bet you the ones in Scotland are black Douglas. Have you heard of the "Black Douglas", and those in Jamaica are "White Douglas".

My family was not as lucky to be sent to the Caribbean, we ended up in Massachusetts, as Scottish Royalists Anglican-Episcopalians like Barbados, fighting for king Charles of Charles Town, not SC but MA, indentured to Puritans.

If of North Carolina, and had FTDNA done, there is this group you may be interested in; https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/argyll-colony-north-carolina/a...

The admin is great, but I have questions about that co admin.

Jonathan ELLIOT Sr born 16 Aug 1701 at Framingham, Middlesex, MA. He married 25 Mar 1726 at Sutton, Worcester Co, MA,

Jonathan ELLIOT Jr  born at Sutton, Worchester Co, MA, 28 Feb 1750

JOHN ELLIOT  born at Sutton, MA, 17 May 1758; married first 15 May 1781 to Mehitable SIBLEY born 27 Jul 1762 at Sutton, MA; dau of Samuel and Abigail [PARK] SIBLEY. She was the sister of Lucy Sibley, the mother of Simon Bardon of Croydon, Sullivan Co, NH

Sutton, Worcester Co, MA, then on to Croydon, Sullivan Co, NH, then through Ohio, onto Iowa where I was born.