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Lawsons Named<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/th>\n
Date<\/strong><\/th>\n\n
County in Virginia<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/th>\n
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Documentation<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
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1634<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Accawmack<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Accawmack County was one of the original eight shires, became Northampton in 1642\/43. Northampton County was then divided in 1663 and became Northampton and Accomack Counties.\u00a0See map\u00a01634-1640<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Robert<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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18 June 1636<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Accomack (Accomack was not formed until 1663, it was Accawmack in 1636)<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Virginia Patent Book 1, Part I, page 364, 18 June 1636 – Lewin (Lewis?) Denwood, 150 acres Accomack (Accawmack?) County. West upon land of Dennis Lane, east and west along the Northern inside of the old plantation creek and running northerly into the woods. Trans. of 3 persons: William Allison, Thomas Harrison and Robert Lawson.\u00a0See map 1661-1670<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1663<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Accomack<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Accomack County was formed from Northampton County in 1663.\u00a0See map\u00a01661-1670<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Elizabeth<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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9 Nov 1666<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Accomack<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Virginia Patent Book 6, page 20, 9 November 1666 – William Onoughton, 500 acres Accomack County, at the head of the north branch of Hunting Creek. Trans. of 10 persons: Eliz. Lawson was one of these persons.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Robert<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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1788<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Accomack<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Accomack County, VA \u2013 1788 Personal Property Tax List-A \u2013 Robert Lawson, 1 white male tithe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Robert<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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1799<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Accomack<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
Accomack County, VA \u2013 1799 Personal Property Tax List-A \u2013 Robert Lawson, 1 white male tithe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawsons Named Date County in Virginia Documentation 1634 Accawmack Accawmack County was one of the original eight shires, became Northampton in 1642\/43. Northampton County was then divided in 1663 and became Northampton and Accomack Counties.\u00a0See map\u00a01634-1640 Robert 18 June 1636 Accomack (Accomack was not formed until 1663, it was Accawmack in 1636) Virginia Patent Book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawsondna.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawsondna.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawsondna.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawsondna.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawsondna.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lawsondna.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/lawsondna.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/2437"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawsondna.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawsondna.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}