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WITH BRIEF NOTICES OF OTHERS OF THE NAME IN
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

(by John Lawrence)

"Your Fathers, where are they?"- Zechariah.

1847.

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FOR the sake of simplicity and clearness, the matter of this sketch is arranged in three parts. The first contains, in connection with the explanation of the name Lawrence, a concise account of some of the earliest and more important families and persons of the name in England, and is properly introductory to the second; which comprises within the number of sixty or more families nearly five hundred individuals whose lineage and descent from the original English ancestors, John and Elizabeth of Watertown, can be easily traced by means of the personal and family reference figures employed. The plan does not follow the course of consecutive lineal descent, yet embraces in successive families all those of the same generation. In addition to the births, marriages and deaths as they have been obtained, some not uninteresting and important historical facts have been inserted. The third and last part includes what has been ascertained of other persons of the name, supposed to have come early to this country, who settled in New England and New Netherlands.

To those of the family name and lineage into whose hands this may come, it is not necessary to say, that while there has been an earnest endeavor to secure accuracy in the statements and dates given, yet it will probably be found that many errors have occurred which will need to be corrected. It has been observed in some cases that the records of the town did not agree with those of the Church, nor these again with the family registers and the burial inscriptions. Hence discrepancies arise, which can be rectified only by close comparison and carefully drawn conclusions.

The request is therefore made, that any further particulars, by which what has been hereby commenced may be corrected and improved, may be furnished for the use of those who have been laboring to compile the history of this family and put it into such a form that, concerning those who are not it may be as though they were; while they who shall be will not be left entirely ignorant of those who have been.

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