RTree - Person Sheet
NameEpaphroditus LAWSON 
Birth1607, Brough Hall, Catterick, Yorkshire, England
Death1652, Lancaster Co., VA
FatherJohn LAWSON (1575-)
MotherSarah ROWLAND (1582-)
Misc. Notes
ANCESTRY.COM, DONEVA SHEPARD’S FAMILY:
Copied from the “Virginia Historical Magazine” [Virginia Magazine of History]
VOL. IV, pages 202-203.
(Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents)
(289) EPAPHRODITUS LAWSON [1], 200 acres at the head of Back River, and adjoining a dam called Scone’s dam, and extending to the Poquoson; due said Lawson by deed of sale dated Oct. 8, 1535. November 25, 1635.
NOTE. [1] “Poquoson” is an Indian word meaning marsh or low ground. There is frequent mention in the patents of land being bounded by, or being in part, “a poquoson.”
(LFC NOTE: NUMEROUS OTHER CITATIONS HAVE BEEN LEFT OUT)
Copied from the “Virginia Historical Magazine” [Virginia Magazine of History]
VOL. IV, pages 202-203.
(Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents)
(289) EPAPHRODITUS LAWSON [1], 200 acres at the head of Back River, and adjoining a dam called Scone’s dam, and extending to the Poquoson; due said Lawson by deed of sale dated Oct. 8, 1535. November 25, 1635.
NOTE. [1] “Poquoson” is an Indian word meaning marsh or low ground. There is frequent mention in the patents of land being bounded by, or being in part, “a poquoson.”
(LFC NOTE: NUMEROUS OTHER CITATIONS HAVE BEEN LEFT OUT)