This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kRFBAIB/1281.2 Message Board Post: Is it possible this is the connection to the original Sawyer immigrant? My line has a Thomas born ca 1613? and there was a John Sawyer also. This family was listed in early early North Carolina, but almost right on the VA line----by the Great Dismal Swamp. I have searched incessantly for the immigrant Sawyer, but it is possible that he moved around a bit before settling. Somehow I think these two huge branches of family must be connected. What think you? Were there any migrations south in the earliest days that you know of?