Geneology of Rene Rains Palmer:Information about Hugh Lawson
Hugh Lawson (b. 1705, d. 1772)
Notes for Hugh Lawson:
In the year 1727, John, Roger and Hugh, the 3 sons of John and Mary (McConnell) Lawson, came to America on the George and Anne.
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Upon his arrival in America, he settled in Pennsylvania first.He married May or Mary, the daugther or Charles Moore.After several years he went to Brunswick County, Viriginia; thence to Lunnenberg.In 1750, he had gone to Augusta County, Virginia.In 1759, records show he bought land in Salisbury, North Carolina and was known as Hugh Lawson, Planter.He owned land on both sides of Davis Creek.Hugh was known as an early settler of North Carolina.
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In Lunnenburg, in 1746, Hugh ws a judge in the Quorum Court.This sounds more imposing than the Justice Court, but it is the same thing.It is not considered Colonial Service in Virginia.
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Hunter, in his "Sketches of North Carolina" says 'Hugh Lawson's old family mansion five miles east of Beatteis Ford of the Catawha River has long since disappeared and the plow now runs smoothly over its site.The only tablet to the memory of this early settler of North Carolina who is buried in Bakers Graveyard firve miles northeast of Beatties Ford on the Catawha River, is a rough slate rock about one foot high and and nine inches broad, on which are rudely chiseled the initials HL.'
More About Hugh Lawson:
Burial: Bakers Graveyard, 5 m. NE of Beatties Ford on the Catawha.
Children of Hugh Lawson and May or Mary? Moore are:
- +Roger Lawson, Sr., b. Bet. 1730 - 1735, Lunnenburg County, Virginia, d. 1803.