Looking for information on Hartwell Sawyers, b. 1779 in NC. He lived most of his life in Washington Co. VA and Sullivan Co. TN. He is first found on the 1806 Washington Co. VA Tax List as Hartwell Sawyer, alias Bell. He is next found on the 1810 Washington Co. VA Census, 1830 Sullivan Co. TN Census, 1840 Washington Co. VA Census, and the 1850 Sullivan Co. TN Census. He was probably in Sullivan Co. TN in 1820. He died in the 1850's in probably Sullivan Co. TN. He was married at least 2 times, the first unknown, the second to a Mary Sawyer. Family tradition states that all she had to do was add an S at the end of her name. Their kinship, if any, is unknown. It is not known for sure how many children either of the wives had. It is believed that Mary Sawyer traveled to Clinton Co. KY in the 1850's with one of her sons, Leander McChesney Sawyers and his young family. Hartwell Sawyers had the following children, most of whom, little is known about. They may have died young or at childbirth, or married and/or migrated westward somewhere. The boys that we know about were: John (1810), Leander McChesney (1819) and William (1829). Leander McChesney Sawyers is my line and he migrated west to Clinton Co. KY in 1853. The girls were: Nancy (1815) who married Isaac Sells around 1837 in Sullivan Co. TN; Susan (1816), and Catherine (1822). It is believed that Nancy (1815) was the mother of John C. Sells (1837) and Susan Rebecca Sells (1845) all of Sullivan Co. TN. The McChesney connection is unknown but believed to be through a Sawyer and McChesney marriage, possibly one of Hartwell's wives. Susan Rebecca Sells (1845) married Henry M. Rosenbaum in 1865 in Sullivan Co. TN. The alias Bell connection of Hartwell Sawyer on the 1806 Washington Co. VA Tax List may suggest he was born to a Bell woman and fathered by a Sawyer man. This is just a theory at this time. Where in NC Hartwell Sawyers was born is also unknown and it is unknown if he connects back to coastal NC where many Sawyer families settled or whether he may have been from some of the southwest VA Sawyers or Sayers families. His surname is found spelled many different ways throughout several documents: Sawyers, Sawyer, Sayers, Sayer, Sawer and his first name is found spelled: Hartwell, Harwell, Harvell, and Hatwell. There is a David Sawyers found in a John Beatie will from Washington Co. VA in 1790. I believe this may be the same David Sawyers found in 1800 in, I believe, Smyth Co. VA? There are also many Sayers families up toward Augusta Co. VA around the mid-1700's and several Sawyers and Sayers scattered throughout some of the southwest VA counties in the early 1800's. Seems to be some Salyer/Salyers families up toward Russell and Scott counties in VA, also, about this timeframe. If you go west toward Lexington, KY (Fayette County), the name Sayre comes up. Lewis Sayers/Sawyers in found in Washington Co. VA around 1840, then a similar name, Lewis Sayre is found in Fayette Co. KY about that time. If there is a connection, it is unknown. I would like to correspond with anyone who may be researching the Sawyer, Sawyers, Sayer, Sayers, Sayre, Sayres, Sawers, and even Salyer and Salyers surnames. I have tried these names on the rootsweb surname list and haven't come up with much. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My line runs through Hartwell Sawyer to Leander McChesney Sawyers (1819) who married Sarah Frances "Frankey" Booher in 1844, in probably Sullivan Co. TN. She was the daughter of Frederick Booher, a son of John Booher, one of the sons of John Baltes Bucher of PA. Leander's son Frederick Hartwell Sawyers (1845) to his son Alfred Homer Sawyers (1898) came to Clinton Co. KY in 1853 with Hartwell's last wife, Mary Sawyer. Thanks, Kevin Miller