This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sawyer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kRFBAIB/115.356.508.1.1 Message Board Post: Michael it is actually online. Many of the N. C. will are online in their original form. I will send the web page but you will have to download a viewer. I was surprized to find this Will as maybe this ties this John Sawyer into the John Sawyer who was recipient in the will of Thomas Price, will made in 1690s. Sorry I can not send the will I will have to send the web page for you to view. Info regarding Thomas Price, and it appears that Michael MacDaniel later married the Jean MacDaniel. Evidently Jean MacDaniel died and Daniel Phillips eventually returned to Virginia. I believe Phillips was an early sheriff in the area. Going on memory here. 1694 Will of Thomas Price Mentions Godson Michael McDaniel, Jean McDaniel and John Sawyer was given a gun by the will. See Below 1698 re:Daniel Phillips. The court later ordered that Thomas Relfe and Thomas Barkock lay out the Danl. Phillips and Joan his w fe (x w fe of Michael McDaniel)the third part of the lands and Tenements Michael MacDaniell Late Husband of the said Joan was Seized of. It is interesting to note that 1698 Gen.Ct.that Wiliam Sawyer ordered to James MacDane ll pay unto the pet tioner William Sawyer th rteen shillings and four pence for his travill and attendance be ng summoned to give evidence.See the will of Thomas Price. October 1695 (What relationship did this William Sawyer have to the John Sawyer and why was he asked to give evidence) Surveyed for John and Robert Sawyer 400 acres for transport for Robert and Mary Sawyer,Mary McDaniel,Frances Sawyer and Thomas French.(Were John and Robert Brothers or Father and son) April 1694 Surveyed for Henry Sawyer 300 Acres on 6/2/1695 for transportation of Jane Sawyer,Sarah Sawyer among others. Wife of Thomas Relfe ident fied was daughter of John Jennings and assigns right of t tle of patent to father in law,John Jennings Jan 27 1693/94 Wm.Jennings,Thomas Relfe,and Mary his Wife sign. 1704/05 General Court CCR 192 Order for John Sawyer to be arrested regarding complain of Wm Glover of Colonel Robert Quary and Pensylvania Company vs.John Sawyer John Sawyer -Sued by Wm.Glover Cons gnee of Colonel Robt.Quary and Pensylvania Company Is Plaintiff.NC Gen.Ct.Records 192 1704/05 1680 Headright for John Sawyer (We do not know as yet any of the other headrights for the early Sawyers,William,Henry,Thomas,John and Robert) John Sawyer – w fe Mary ""Some Pasquotank Co.,N.C.Headrights.N.C. Genealogy Soc.Journal Vol 13:2,May 1987 1680