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Where/how, did I get JOSEPH LAWS as identified as, or associated with, Saponi ? or am I having a senior moment?
My list, possibly a compilation of info, includes:
Meredith Collins
Stephen Austin
Joseph Laws****
Henry Morgan
Timothy Spencer
Abram Jones
Joel Stamper
Daniel Blevins
____ Alston
____ Austin (Stephen?)
____ Irvin
Someone please set me straight.
Bill
I’ve never heard the name Laws before. Lawson is on the ‘long’ list of names known, believed, or speculated to be Saponi.
hmmm. yer right. I know :confused: I saw that list somewhere on this forum but searching on “LAWS” pulls up every law we’ve ever cited on this forum 😮 – about like searching any site for “childs” that pulls up thousands of references to the possessive case of “child”. 🙂 Oh well, I’ll just go back to what I was doing yesterday morning and see if it “comes to me” 😀 kinda like walking into a room to get something and once there, ya can’t remember why you went there, so ya go back where ya came from and hope it “hits” ya again !!
Bill
Ah-ha ! It worked.
The Saponi “association” in my mind came about because of Brenda’s reply to Linda’s post of 4-2-2002 “Saponi Military Prescence in Rev. War”. This was not a list of Saponi names.
Brenda listed a group of names from Capt. Swift’s company who were threatened with being sent aboard ships in eastern Virginia to defend the Chesapeake Bay from the Brits.
This list of names corresponds ‘almost’ totally with surnames of NDN families from various parts of the country originating in Virginia, that I’ve attempted to trace over the years.
That list included Joseph Laws/Law, who was from Montgomery Co., Va (1782 Tax List), who is a descendant of a couple of my NDN ladies (maternal line descended from Orange & Spots.Co COLLINS) – Elishaba, a.k.a. Elizabeth LAWSON, b.abt.1694 Va., d.aft.1733 Lunenberg Co., and her dau-in-law Lazinka, a.k.a Sarah COCKERHAM, b.abt.1731 then Lunenburg Co., Va., d.abt. June 1799 Franklin/Henry County line on Simmons Creek, who was a dau of the Indian Trader Abner Cockerham.
(The Cockerhams are also related to my Wilburn line (paternal) via BLAIR & BLEVINS and a couple more I don’t have in front of me at the moment.)
Elishaba m’d William I. Law/Laws, b. 4 Jan 1690 Kemnay, Aberdeen Scotland, who with his father, was deported by the Brits to Virginia and settled in the wilds of Henrico Co, parent county of Goochland and Albermarle. Their son John Birdwell Law, b.1722 Lunenburg or Henrico Co’s m’d Lazinka in 1748 Halifax Co (now Franklin Co), Va. John’s brother was Joseph, b. 1716, who moved to Wilkes Co., NC about 1763.
The Joseph on Brenda’s list may be John or Joseph’s son or nephew from Montgomery County. A DUNCAN and an OSBURN researcher seem to be interested in Joseph’s line.
Bill
The documentation for that information came from Mary Kegely’s book” Adventures on the Western Waters” I can’t get Kegely’s books up here in NE at the library or on loan. I have tried but people have sent me several pieces out of her books. She also has one called the Rev Soldiers of Fincastle County. I would like to get my hands on it.
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