This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DAw.2ACIB/1721.1.1 Message Board Post: The lawrences of Abbeville SC settled theirin the 1760s. I have no idea ifany branches went north, but this wouldhave been unusual since the normal migration pattern was west and northwest. I have made a map of the lands of those who settled in Abbeville, I have not studied their descendants. Richard