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From: WILMA PADGETT <>
Subject: Re: Lawson family tree & Stirling Scotland
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:41:58 -0700


Thanks Linda.

Wilma

wrote:
>
> Hey Wilma,
> I was just looking it up in "The Brief American Pageant" and I must have made
> a big booboo. I was reading this paragraph right before I fell asleep one
> night after work. I think I misread "lawless" for "Lawsons". I probably fell
> in and out of sleep and read the same paragraph a couple of times,
> incorporating Lawsons as the beginning of the sentence. Here goes
> "Early in the 1700's tens of thousands of embittered Scots-Irish finally
> pulled up stakes and came to America, chiefly to tolerant and deep soiled
> Pennsylvania. Finding the best acres already taken by Germans and Quakers,
> they pushed out onto the frontier. There many of them illegally but defiantly
> squatted on the unoccupied lands, and quarreled with both red and white
> owners. It was said, somewhat unfairly, that the Scots-Irish kept the
> Sabbath-and all else they could lay their hands on. Pugnacious,lawless, and
> individualistic, they brought with them the Scottish secrets of whiskey
> distilling and proceeded to set up their own stills......."
> I had never bothered to look back to make sure that that was what was
> said. I was surprised that a certain surname would be written about so
> specifically- and now I have found that it was not. This was not meant to
> hurt anyones feelings and if you see my old note,that was not the way I saw
> MY Lawsons.
> My g-g-grandpa was in the Spanish American War (Marion D. Lawson). Like
> you, I would desire to find my Lawson line beyond the 1800 mark to even see
> if there was anyone in the Revolutionary War.
> Thank you,
> Linda Tomes
>
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