I know some Lawson researchers don't think they are the same because you can find both of these names into the 1700's. We have found over 30 ways to spell Bowles, about half are being used today. So much for that. The reason for posting to both list about the Lawson- Cawsey is you will find some surnames that are connected to both families.I guess I had better start back in 1607 with Nathaniel Cawsey. At this point we know Nathaniel was married in 1609. We don't know anything about his children, or if he had any. Leathel, Nathaniell Cawsey by Phoenix 1607; Thomasine his wife by Lion 1609; Thomas Cawsey by Francis Bonaventure 1620. Servants; Edward Denison 22 by Truelove 1623, James Bonner 20 by Truelove 1623, James Dore 19 by Bona Nova 1621, Laurance Evans 15 by James 1622, Joane Winscomb 20 by George 1618 Nathaniel Cawsey, who came in 1607, and his wife Thomasine, who came in 1609, were living with 5 servants at Charles City. The town of Charles City was at the present City Point, at the mouth of the Appomattox. The lands belonging to these men was called, after the alliterative fashion of the time, " Cawsey's Care," and was represented under that name in the House of Burgesses in 1632. From this name was derived the later "Cawsons," long a seat of the Bland family, and the birthplace of John Randolph of Roanoke. In the 1622 Indian massacre, Nathaniel Cawsey killed a Indian with a ax by splitting his head to save his family, the other indians fleed. He was not killed. The Indians killed most of the people living south of James River. The attack began on both sides of the James River at precisely eight o' clock on the morning of April 1, 1622. Only 893 people were left in VA after the massacre in 1622.