Ivey/Ivie/Ivy E1b1a could have arisen in a somewhat later ~1700 AD period in Colonial Virginia as the offspring of a union between an African and a white female Ivey/Ivie/Ivy. For this scenario, it is necessary to suggest a list of the more likely females from the lines of the
early Ivey/Ivie/Ivy immigrants. One plausible candidate might be
Elizabeth Ivey (c1678 – aft1695), daughter of George SR, and grand-daughter of
Thomas Ivey of Norfolk Co, VA (see section 2.7 of this document). The likely mixed-race offspring of such a union could have been Adam of Edgecombe Co, NC, Thomas, and Joseph as documented by Paul Heinegg as well as Robert Baird. One point in favor of the "Elizabeth Hypothesis" is the petition by George Ivie and others who signed a petition to repeal a 1691 Virginia law against interracial marriages. This would have been George JR who would have been the brother of this Elizabeth.
A second candidate might be a daughter of Gilbert Ivie, son of Adam of Prince George/Charles City Co, VA. This Gilbert has long been a mystery to researchers as he appeared to disappear in the northern counties of North Carolina but in the same approximate area where the first mixed-race Ivey/Ivie/Ivys appear. This suggestion has arisen from the observation that early family researchers such as Robert Allison Ivey connected the lines of Henry and Charles of Granville Co, NC, to Gilbert. Perhaps the connection was closer to the truth than some of us have previously believed (since Robert Allison Ivey furnished no documentation) but to a female descendent of Gilbert. Several of the participants in the Y-DNA Surname Project descend from Charles of Granville Co and have the E1b1a Haplogroup.