This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lawson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3248.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Doug, That is a good question. I don't know if Jacob Lawson had a son named Wiley or not. Jacob showed up in a few property transactions, but no relatives were named in the documents as far as I know. Wiley, son William, showed up quite a bit in the early 1820s with mother Sarah and brother George Lawson. A Wiley showed up in a document in which Preston Lawson agree to sell his household goods. So, I presume this is the same Wiley as in the present case. Maybe there was more than one Wiley. David