Ancestors of Edmund Waller Hartley & Ann Elizabeth Whitlow
Index Cascading Pedigree

Name: William Laws
Birth: 20 Feb 1718 Bristol Parish, Henrico Co., VA
Death:   after 7 Jan 1780 Wilkes Co., NC

Spouse: Mary Glass
Birth: 1728 Warren Co., KY
Death: 1781 NC

Father: William Law (1690 - 1766)
Mother:
Elizabeth Littleberry (b. 1694 Antrim Parish, Halifax Co., VA, d., 1733, Halifax Co)

Children:  
Amy Laws ( ~1750 - )
Mary Laws ( ~1752 - )
Ann Laws ( ~1754 - )
Patty Laws
Abigail Laws (~1756 - 1817)
William Welcome Laws ( ~ 1758 - )

According to deer records in Wilkes Co., ND

Dec., 1779 - Land entry for Welcome William Laws, Sr., in Wilkes Co., North
Carolina, for 100 acres on Lewis Branch 

According to Greg Lovelace's posting on Rootsweb on on the internet:

7 Jan., 1780 - Welcome William Laws, Sr. wrote his will. No wife named.
Children named: daughters - Annay (Amy) Dyer, Mary Cross, Ann Lovelace,
Patty Adams, Abbey Hampton; son - Welcome William Laws; son-in-law, Peter
Bowman. Executors Welcome William Laws, John Laws Sr.; witnesses: John Laws
Sr., Jacob Hampton, Darkey Harford. Signed: William (X) Laws. 

This page was prepared by Charles Hartley.
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