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/XeB.2ACE/3248.1.2.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Which Lawsons of NC and TN of the ages b: 1790 - 1820 abt. were named or had sons named Samuel ? I think this is rarer than Clem. Samuel Clement Lawson [Clemuel truncated "Clement Samuel"] ? Clements / Klemenz / Clemmons Lawson (hmmm Mark Twain Lawson?) ? I think McClendon/Clendon/Clinton are totally different names. Off topic totally, do you think Clinton (as in Manis) could be a nickname for McClendon/McLennan/McClennon in all its spellings ?