Ray, My earliest known Tawes ancestor first appeared in the Pocomoke hundred of Somerset County, Colony (now state) of Maryland about 1740 and I believe may have been indentured to a Porter. I do not know who his parents were our where they were from. Since I have found the name in the OPR's of Banff and Aberdeen I am assuming that this is likely the area where he came from? George D. Tawes