This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CelesteHolly51 Surnames: Hooker, Lawson Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lawson/6860.1.1.1.2.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The "pushing" into NC of Cherokee by white settlers came around that 1761 date and before. Those Cherokee who stayed after that time lived as whites and were assimilated into the communities of that area. They would not have been "rounded up" in 1835 as they were living as whites for almost 100 yrs. by then and had intermarried quite a bit. Many of the PCVA Hookers moved over that line into NC starting in the early 1800s and even married across that line. Our 6 brothers line of Hookers were in that area of NC that became TN (their father came into NC from PCVA c late 1770s as did the Randolph Co., NC Hookers who match yDNA [Q1a3 haplo] with the PCVA Hookers,) Some of the 6 brothers line state b Tn, but they were b. before Tn even existed so they were all b NC between 1777-1792. In all probability Elizabeth was a Lawson who had a Hooker child out of wedlock - outside possibility would be she married a Lawson and he "adopted" the son. But the parents/adopted father, if a Lawson, should show up on a tax list in 1800 in NC as the Lawsons who went to Hawkins Co., TN did not go until after 1800, and later on if Elizabeth was married to a Lawson male, he should appear on tax lists in Hawkins Co., TN. There is a Reconstructed TN 1810 census made up of tax lists that has een published. The Lawsons who went to Hawkins Co., TN were the "Black Eye" John Lawson and his son "Goober Pea" John Lawson and their families. There were some Elizabeths in that line. They had lived in Stokes Co., NC quite near/just across the state line from the PCVA Hookers. We do not know if the Stokes Co., NC Wm Hooker and wife, Jerusha Lawson Hooker (both b in Halifax Co.,VA), family matches the Q1a3 yDNA, yet. We have a test in the hands of their descendants, but it has not yet been taken/sent in. If they match the PCVA Hookers then one of them might be a candidate for father of David.Some of those Hooekr sons moved west from Stokes Co., NC into TN. Also, we know that some PCVA Hookers also went to Hawkins Co., Tn. If David were b in TN in 1803, his family probably came from that area of NC along the NC, VA, Tn border. Most from that area did not go into Hawkins Co.,TN until about 1810. There should be tax lists which would show any Lawsons in Hawkins Co.,TN. There is a guy working on the Hawkins Co., TN Lawsons who might have some info. But unless you find some Lawsons with that rare Q1a3 haplo your David was probably fathered, as I have said, by a Hooker male from that Native American Hooker line from the area that became Pitts., Henry and PCVA. Celeste Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.