NameRowland (Jr) LAWSON
Birth1644, Lancaster Co., VA
Death1706, Lancaster Co., VA
Misc. Notes
ANCESTRY.COM, DONEVA SHEPARD’S FAMILY:
ROWLAND LAWSON II was Justice of Lancaster County, VA in 1684.
Rowland Lawson, Jr.'s will in 1706, bears a seal showing arms--a chevron between three martlets. Burke gives thc arms of Lawson, of Brough Hall, Yorkshire, and of Lawson (Baronets) of Longherstl and Cramblington Co., Northumberland, England, as--Arg, a chevron between three martlets sable. (Source - William and Mary College Quartely Historical Magazine Volume I, page 636. )
The book "Lawson family of Lancaster and Rappahannock Counties, Va." by Floyd Wills Sydnor describes this Rowland Lawson as "soldier, constable, surveyor and Justice of the Peace of Lancaster co., VA"