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/HAC.2ACE/545.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I think so. Charles(Jane) Tyler appears in Westmoreland County in the 1690s married to a Jane Unknown. He had several children including Charles who married Susanna Monroe; William who married Margaret Pratt and Hester Jones; Christian who married a couple of Monroe cousins in her three marriages and became the grandmother of President Monroe by one of them; Benjamin who married Eleanor Middleton and later Mary Foote and Joseph who died unmarried in Westmoreland in 1737. William had several children by Margaret Pratt including Charles, the eldest whom I call Charles of Amherst. This Charles married Elizabeth Wade probably c1857 and a Mary Unknown somewhat later. Charles of Amherst, son of William had two proven sons, Daniel and John Tyler. The John Tyler, father of Lawson G is this John, son of Charles of Amherst. Charles of Amherst, born 1730 and John, who married Elizabeth Dillard are buried side by side in Amherst County. Benjamin is the sort of lynchpin of this family in! to Prince William County. Benjamin and his wife Eleanor moved on to Broad Run of the Occoquan in 1855 from Westmoreland. That same year, William, his brother, married Hester Jones in King George and Hester's family immediately started to strip old William of his assets. When Benjamin moved out of Westmoreland to Prince William in 1755, Charles of Amherst, John, Joseph, and Elizabeth, children of William and Margaret moved with him. I do not know whether it was co-incidental or had something to do with William's marriage to Hester. Anyway as you mentioned Benjamin and Eleanor also had a Charles who married Ann Moore. I am no good on relationships but I think that makes John, father of Lawson G a first cousin one generation removed of Charles, son of Benjamin. I, along with several other correspondents always believed that Lawson G's name which is fairly unusual, was derived from the close associations you mentioned with the Lawson family of Prince William. Dale