This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IeB.2ACI/117.1 Message Board Post: My Great-Grandfather 's first wife was a Lawton and I know of a E.G. Primus who was his neice in the late 1800's. My family runs deep in the Beaufort, Hampton and Jasper County and consist of the following: Smith, Russell, Lawton, Bascomb, which included Eugene and Robert Primus. They were all considered "free people of color and/or Mulattos" Maybe there is a connection.