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/QAw.2ACIB/812 Message Board Post: Looking for info on John Laws but all I know is that his son was Meshack Laws, Sr. According to the census records Meshack would have been b. about 1800. Meshack m. Lucinda Ayers in 1820 in Wilkes Co. in 1840 they were in Yancey County, NC according to the census records.