This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sawyer, Harrison, Robertson, Thornton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kRFBAIB/115.356.357.358.628 Message Board Post: Have read your letters about the Sawyers in Pasquotank, N.C. and Macoupin, Illinois, with interest. For sometime, I have researched my families that went from N. C. to Macoupin, Illinois. My ggggrandparents Nathaniel and Amanda Blakely Robertson lived in what is now Laurens County and Edgefield County, N.C. They were closely associated with the Elkenah Sawyer family that eventually moved to Butler County, Al. Nathaniel's grandson Nathaniel Robertson married Martha Harrison. After Nathaniel died during the WBS, Martha moved to Macoupin, Illinois from Butler County with six of their smaller children. In my research, I have found related Thorntons who moved from Edgefield to Macoupin, also. I do not have a John B. Sawyer nor any of his children in my data, but I suspect he is related to John Sawyer, born in 1735., in Pasquotank, N.C. This John is the father of Elkanah Sawyer whose line married into my Alabama Robertson family. If you recognize any of these names, please write to me. My earliest Sawyer is Colonist William Sawyer whose grandson John Sawyer, born in ca 1735, lived in Pasquotank, N.C.