Joanna Lawson^{[1, 2, 3]}

1721 - 1790  (68 years)

• Name	Joanna Lawson
  	Parents of Joanna Lawson are John Lawson and Mary Unknown
  Born	17 Mar 1721	North Farnham Parish, Richmond, Virginia
  Gender	Female
  Died	1790	Cumberland Co., Virginia
  Person ID	I547451096	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of Thomas Carter of Barford
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2019

  
  

  Father	John Lawson,   b. Est 1700, Virginia Colony ,   d. Bef 2 Feb 1761, Richmond Co., Virginia Colony  (Age ~ 61 years)
  Mother	Mary Mrs. John Lawson,   b. Est 1700,   d. Bef 1758, Richmond Co., Virginia  (Age ~ 58 years)
  Married	Bef 1721
  Family ID	F4460	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Adcock Hobson,   b. 1716, Northumberland County, Virginia [later York] ,   d. 1779, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 63 years)
  Married	30 Jul 1741	Richmond (independent city), Virginia,
  Children	+ 1. Winnifred Hobson,   b. 15 Jul 1745, St. Stephens Parish, Northumberland, Virginia ,   d. 3 Dec 1831, Green Rock, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 86 years)
  Last Modified	3 Jul 2015
  Family ID	F2189	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S72] GenForum, http://genforum.genealogy.com/carter/messages/22484.html. CARTER, OF GREENROCK, PITTSYLVANIA. THOMAS CARTER (Thos.(3), Thos.(2), Thos.(1)), born at "Barford," Lancaster county, Nov. 27, 1734, died at "Greenrock," Pittsylvania, July 15, I8I7. In I760 he sold his land in Lancaster and removed with his brother, Jessee to the land they had inherited from their father, in Cumberland County. Here Thomas Carter married, July 10, 1764, Winifred Hobson, eldest daughter of Adcock and Joana Lawson Hobson. She was born July 15, I745 in Northumberland county, and died Dec. 3, I831, in Pittsylvania. Name: Anne Smith CARTER Birth: 3 JUN 1816 in Pittsylvania Co., VA Death: 23 JAN 1870 in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia Burial: Lanier-Oakes Cem, Road 718, Dry Fork, Virginia Father: Edward CARTER b: 8 MAR 1775 Mother: Nancy ALLEN Marriage 1 David Thompson LANIER b: 25 JUN 1813 in Pittsylvania Co., VA Married: 15 DEC 1834 in Pittsylvania Co., VA Children Adolphus C LANIER b: 9 SEP 1835 in Pittsylvania Co., VA John Edward LANIER b: 19 JUN 1837 in Pittsylvania Co., VA Mary Anne LANIER b: 4 APR 1844 in Pittsylvania Co., VA [S84] Rootsweb, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=grantpinnix&id=I058669. HOBSON AND LAWSON EXCURSUS. Adcock Hobson is supposed to have been a grandson of Thomas Hobson, who was clerk of Northumberland for the long period of fifty-two years--1664 to 1716. July 30, 1741, Adcock Hobson married in Richmond County, Joana, eldest daughter of John and Mary Lawson, born March 17, 1721, and had issue: John, born Oct. 31, 1742; Winifred, born July 15, 1745; Thomas, born Jan. 11, 1746; William, b. Sept. 7, 1748; Caleb, born July 15, 1751--all born in Northumberland; and Lawson, Lucy, Edward and Elizabeth, born in Richmond and Cumberland counties. Joana Lawson Hobson's mother, Mary Lawson, died July 16, 1740, and her father's will was prob. in Richmond County, Feb. 2, 1761. They had issue: Christopher Lawson, whose will, prob. in Sept., 1772, names wife Sarah, and children John, Betty Digges, Epaphroditus, Joana, Katy and Lucy; Elizabeth, born Feb. 17, 1719, wife of a Mr. Barber in 1758; Joana, wife of Adcock Hobson, and Catharine, wife of Isaac White, twins, born March 17, 1721; Lucy, born March 3, 1732, married George Booker after 1758. The parentage of John Lawson of Richmond County, but the names of his children and grandchildren show positively that he was a member of the Lawson family of Lancaster County, which is descended from Rowland Lawson, the elder of three brothers--Rowland, Richard, and Epaphroditus--who came to Virginia prior to 1637, when Epaphroditus Lawson had a grant of 1,400 acres of land for their transportation. Between 1649-1656 they had large grants of land in Lancaster and Gloucester counties. Richard settled in Gloucester, and died prior to 1662. He was probably the ancestor of the Middlesex Lawsons. Epaphroditus and Rowland settled in Lancaster; the former died in Lancaster in 1652, and seems to have left but one child, a daughter, who married Robert Davis. Rowland Lawson was a justice of the Lancaster court, 1652-1656. His will, probated May 8, 1661, names wife Letitia (named in the head rights in 1637) and children: Rowland, Jr., a justice of Lancaster, 1684, died in 1706, leaving sons Rowland 3rd. (died 1717), Henry and John; Elizabeth; Henry; and John, who died prior to 1703, leaving sons John, Jr., and Epaphroditus, and daughter Elizabeth. Rowland Lawson II.'s will in 1706 bears a seal showing a chevron between three martlets. Burke gives the arms of the Lawsons of Brough Hall, Yorkshire, and of Cramington, Northumberland, as--Arg. a chevron, between three martlets sable. See Mr. W. G. Stanard's interesting notes of the Lawsons in Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. IV. After their marriage Thomas and Winifred Hobson Carter lived in Cumberland county until 1783, when he purchased 467 acres of land in Pittsylvania known as "Green Rock." Here he built a log house, and in 1787 a frame house, which was considered very fine at that time, part of which is yet standing. In 1797-1798 and 1802 Thomas Carter, Sr., had grants for 1,193 acres of land in Pittsylvania. In the census of 1782 there were ten white members of his family and seven servants. [S100] Internet Source, http://genealogytrails.com/vir/halifax/historyhalifaxbook_families.html. LAWSON. The Lawsons belong to a very ancient family from England and Scotland, where they flourished centuries ago. There were many Lawsons in Yorkshire, England. There was a Rowland Lawson who died in Lancaster county, Va., in 1661. His children were Rowland, John, Henry, Letitia, and Elizabeth. John Lawson, surveyor, came to North Carolina in 1700. He wrote a valuable history of the early Carolinas. They have always been staunch, determined church people, leaning mostly to the Scotch Presbyterianism. The Lawsons who married in Halifax county were William Lawson, who married Jane Banks in 1758, May 24; John Lawson, who married Martha Bates, 1778, August 8; John Lawson, who married Ann Irvine, 1782, February 17; Thomas Lawson, who married Hannah Fuqua, 1782, January 4; David Lawson, who married Winnie Dodson, 1794, October 12; John Lawson, who married Elizabeth Miller, 1786, April 24; Francie Lawson, who married Betsy Taylor, 1791, February 16; G. M. Lawson, who married Angelina Marshall, December 21, 1836; and James E. Lawson, who married Julia Ann Johnson, November 18, 1835. David Lawson married Jane Bailey. Robert William Lawson (son of David) was born in the village of Harmony, Halifax county, 1853. He married Mary E. Craddock, daughter of Dr. John Craddock, of Black Walnut, November 16, 1898. By this marriage he left three children, Robert Lawson, J. J. Lawson, and Mary Elizabeth Lawson. His widow married Mr. Lewis Johnston, son of Rev. Lewis Johnston, and his wife, Miss Dupuy. They have one son, Lewis Johnston, Jr. In the Revolutionary war Robert Lawson was major of the Fourth Virginia Regiment, later brigadier general, and commanded a brigade of Virginia troops under General Greene at the battle of Guilford. The Revolutionary roster is reeking with Lawsons. They were brave men, and ?tis said "they were set in their ways," which is all right if their ways were set for liberty and righteousness; for ?tis said also that there was never a time when there lacked a man of the Lawson name to stand before the Lord. In 1812, October 12, one Thomas Brandon was guardian of Priscilla, John F., and Catherine D. Lawson, as recorded in Halifax. John J. Lawson, brother of Robert Lawson, married Eliza Craddock, sister of Robert?s wife. They had the following children: John Lawson, married Nancy Carrington, daughter of Henry Paul Carrington. Bessie Lawson, wife of Tyree Wright. Barksdale Lawson, married Sallie Williams. Janie Lawson, wife of Julian East. Venable Lawson, married Vivian Moseley. Marie Lawson, wife of Ernest Harding. Stebbens Lawson, married Elizabeth Houston. Katherine Lawson, wife of Thomas Sutherlin.