Posted on: Hampshire County, WV Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Hampshire?read=1208 Surname: Dawson ------------------------- We know our family was in Hampshire County (or what was to be Hampshire County) in the 1850s and 1860s. One important relative for us to track down is Cephus Dawson, in the area from at least the 1820s to the 1850s. There is a missing link between this Cephus Dawson, and another, older Cephus/Cephas Dawson who received a land grant from Lord Baltimore for a chunk of western Maryland in the early to mid 1700s, who is the originator of our Dawson branch in the colonies. Does anyone have any hints?