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/6860.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Well, I think you can rest assured that Elizabeth Lawson had a child fathered by a Hooker, or at least by a male relative of the PCVA Hookers in that Native American/Cherokee line. That takes our lines back to c 1700 which is as far as many of us will ever get. We know it is not a European haplo so, in the male line, it does not go back to England or Europe. In my one English line I only got back to 1695 in Enlgish/Cambridgeshire records as that is as far as Cambridgeshire records go with any consistency. Some counties in England have earlier records but not all. So c 1700 is pretty good, esp in this country. We probably will never know the given names of that/those first Native American male/males who called themselves by the Hooker surname. Robin/Robert Hooker, Jr is the first definite name we have - he was b c 1730. His father might be that Robert (Sr) Hooker who acquired land in that area that later became Pitts., Henry and PCVA in the 1740s and 50s. 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.