This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: drdjones Surnames: Lawson Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lawson/3427.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.2.3.1.3.1.1.2.1.1.1.2.3.1.2.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Only a very close relative secured a bail bond in Hawkins County. I am guessing that Banks was an Uncle or possibly an older brother if his father was married multiple times. By the way, there is are twos good books online that discusses the emigration of the Palatinate Germans from PA to Rowan County NC (became Surry and Stokes) about 1750 (Section 12). There are free on google books. As you mentioned before, it was likely that Clement Lawson's wife was one of them. My own ancestor was the Palatinate Jacob Miller who settled in New Bern, NC in 1710. History of the German settlements and of the Lutheran church in North and South Carolina: from the earliest period of the colonization of the Dutch, German, and Swiss settlers to the close of the first half of the present century By Gotthardt Dellman Bernheim Published by Lutheran Book Store, 1872 History of Wachovia in North Carolina: The Unitas Fratrum Or Moravian Church in North Carolina During a Century and a Half, 1752-1902, from the Original German and English Manuscripts and Records in the Wachovia Archives, Salem, North Carolina By John Henry Clewell Published by Doubleday, Page & company, 1902 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.