This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sawyer, Toler Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kRFBAIB/1419.2.1 Message Board Post: Pasquotank Co. is in the northeastern portion of NC. It is separated from Virginia by a portion the Great Dismal Swamp. It is among the earliest settled areas of NC. When the County of Albemarle was sub-divided into three precincts, it was part of Carteret Precinct. About 1685 Carteret Precinct was divided into Currituck and Pasquotank, thereafter there were four precincts. Sawyer was a name found early on in these first precincts.