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Note: Tuttle, printed & published by Tuttle & Co., Rutland, VT, 1883:
p. xxxiv--footnote
"John Lawrence of New Amsterdam, N.Y. 1663; Alderman 1665; Mayor 1672; one of his Majesties Council 1674 and so by successive appointments to 1698; again Mayor 1691 and 1702; Judge of Supreme Court of the Prev. of N.Y. 1693 until Dec. 1699; Sheriff of Queen's County 1681; Alderman 1680 to 1684 and 1665 to 1672.
Children:
1. Joseph
2. John
3. Thomas
4. Martha
5. Susanna, m. Galnic Minville, one of the Council of the Province and Major of New York
m. (2) William smith, Alderman 6. Mary, m. William Whitingham, Harvard College 1660
From one of the brothers, John and William Lawrence, were descended John Lawrence, Alderman of N.Y. 1762 to 1765, and Richard Lawrence of N.Y. who died in 1816. The children of Richard Lawrence were:
1. John, b. about 1750; member of congress; had several children of whom four daughter married respectively, John Campbell, Benjamin F. Lee, John P. Smith, and Timothy Churchill.
2. Isaac, graduate of Princeton College; Prest. U.S. Branch Bank; died 1841; married Cornelia Beach, daughter of Rev. ABRAHAM BEACH, rector of Trinity Parish, N.Y., and had:
1. Cornelia Beach, m. James A. Hillhouse of New Haven, CT 2. Harriet, m. John A. Post 3. Isaphane, m. Dr. Benjamin McVicker 4. Julia Beach, m. Thomas L. Welles 5. Maria, m. Rev. W. J. Kipp 6. Hannah m. Henry, son of Stephen Whitney, he m. (2) Maria L. Fitch of New Haven;
After decease of Mr. Whitney, she m. (2) Nathan Baldwin of Milford, CT.
7. William Beach, Lieut. Gov. Rhode Island; m. a daughter of Archibald Gracie of N.Y.
3. William, a planter of Demarara
Of this family was Capt. James Lawrence, b. Burlington, N. J., Oct. 1, 1731; killed
in the naval action between the American Frigate Chesapeake, which he commanded, and
the British Frigate Shannon. His dying words, "don't give up the ship," immortalize
his name. He left a wife and two young children. He was son of John Lawrence, a lawyer,
and had a brother John and two widowed sisters at time of his death. ----------------------
HISTORY OF QUEENS COUNTY, FLUSHING, NEW YORK:
Excerpts from "History of Queens County New York", 1882, New York: W.W. Munsell & Co.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyqueen2/Flushing/ "SETTLEMENT AND ACQUISITION OF LAND. The best attainable data place the first settlement on Flushing Bay at about 1643, and in the next seven years the number of settlers had increased by additions of Friends from Holland, and several who were accredited as coming from the Massachusetts colony, and who were driven here by the practical operator of the strange interpretation placed on their boasted motto "Freedom to worship God," by the proprietors of that colony.
The oldest official document throwing light on the first settlement of this place -- Vlissingen, as it was then called, after a village in Holland in which the English refugees had lived, and of which name Flushing is a corruption -- is dated in 1645, and is a charter for a town, granted by Governor Kieft and found embodied in a confirmation granted by the State of New York in 1782. The original manuscript, including a renewal granted by English authority in 1685, was lost in the destruction of the town's records by fire in 1789; and on the 24th of February 1792 an exemplification of Flushing patent was issued by Attorney-General James Graham, which is now on file in the town hall. The English renewal of Governor Kieft's charter was by Governor Dongan, in the name of James II., the reigning king of England. The tract in question was granted, according to the governor's announcement, in 1666 to JOHN LAWRENCE, alderman of the city of New York, Richard Cornell, Charles Bridges, WILLIAM LAWRENCE, Robert Terry, William Noble, John Forbush, Elias Doughty, Robert Field, Edward Farrington, John Marston, Anthony Field, Philip Udall, Thomas Stiles, Benjamin Field, William Pidgeon, John Adams, John Hinchman, Nicholas Parcell, Tobias Feakes and John Bowne as patentees, for and in behalf of themselves and their associates, the freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Flushing, their heirs, successors and inhabitants, forever, and was described as follows:
"All that Certaine Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire upon Long Island called by the name of Flushing, Scituate, lying and being in the north side of said island; which said hath a Certaine tract of land belonging thereto, and bounded westward beginning at the mouth of a creeke upon the East River known by the name of Flushing Creeke, and from thence including a certain neck of land called Tuesneck, to run Eastward from the head or middle whereof a Line is to be run South East; in length about three miles and about two miles in breadth as the Land hath been surveyed and laid out by virtue of an order made at the General Meeting held at the town of Hempstead in the month of March one thousand six hundred and sixty four; then that there may be the same lattitude in Breadth on the South Side as on the North, to run in two direct Lines Southward to the middle of the hills, as is directed by another order made of the General Meeting Aforesaid; which, passing East and West as the two are now marked, is the Bounds between the said Towns of Flushing and Jamaica; for the greatest parte of which said tract of Land and premissess there was heretofore a Pattent granted from the Dutch Governor William Kieft, bearing date the tenth day of October one thousand six hundred and forty five, Stilo Novo, unto Thomas Farrington, JOHN LAWRENCE, John Hicks and divers other Patentees, their Successors, Associates and assignes, for them to improve, manure, and settle a competent number of familyes there upon."
The document then recites that on the 14th of April 1684, Elias Doughty, Thomas Willett, John Bowne, Matthias Harvey, Thomas Hicks, Richard Cornell, John Hinchman, Jonathan Wright, and Samuel Hoyt, agents of the freeholders of the town of Flushing, to perfect their title, bought from certain Indians who claimed their territory, "all the lands, situate, lying and being on North Side of Long Island, called and knowne by the name of Flushing, within Queens County, the first bounds whereof begin to the West with Flushing Creeke, to the South by Jamaica Line, to the East by Hempstead Line, and to the North with the Sound, for and in consideration of a valuable sume then received."
It is further stated that the inhabitants of Flushing and Jamaica agreed upon their boundaries as follows: "That from the foot or bottome of the hills upon the South side of Town of Jamaica shall have Seven Score Rood upon a direct and straight point unto the hills in all places from the Eastermost Bounds of Jamaica, being at a marked Walnut tree upon Rockie hill, standing upon the West Side of the Road between Flushing and Hempstead, to the Westermost Bounds of Jamaica and Flushing in the hill;" also that "by another Certaine Writing or agreement, dated the last day of June one thousand six hundred eighty four, made by Elias Doughty, John Seaman, Thomas Willett and John Jackson, the Bounds between the towne of Flushing and Hempstead are to begin at the middle of the bay, where Capt. Jacques runn the line, and to hold the same until comes to the land Called by the name of the Governor's Land, and then from the South side of the Governor's Land towards the End of the plaine to the former markt tree that stands in the Hollow, and to run from thence upon a direct line unto the Rocky hill Westerly, where Carts usually goe to Flushing;" also that the patentees and their associates "have, according to the Custom and Practice in this Province, made several divisions, allottments, distinct settlements and improvements of severall pieces and parcells of the above recited tract," and that application had been made to the governor by Joseph Smith and Jonathan Wright for a confirmation of the patent. In view of these facts Governor Dongan issued the following:
"Now, for a Confirmation unto the present Freeholders and Inhabitants of the said Towne, their heirs and Assigns, in the Quiett and peaceable possession and enjoyment of the aforesaid Tract of Land and premises, Know Yee that, by virtue of the Commission and authority, I have ratified, Confirmed and Granted unto Thomas Willett, JOHN LAWRENCE Seignor, Elias Doghty, Richard Cornell, Moriss Smith, Charles Morgan, Mary Fleake, Wouter Gisbertson, John Masten, John Cornelis, John Harrison, Denius Holdron, John Hinchman, William Yeates, Joseph Thorne, JOHN LAWRENCE Junior, Matthias Harveye, Harmanns King, John Farrington, Thomas Williams, Elisabeth Osborn, Joseph Havyland, John Washborne, Aaron Cornelis, John Bowne, William Noble, Samuel Hoyt, Madeling Frances Barto, John Hoper, Thomas Ford, John Jenning, John Embree, Jonathan Wright, Nicholas Parcell, WILLIAM LAWRENCE, Richard Townly, Edward Griffin Junior, JOHN LAWRENCE at the Whitestone, Henry Taylor, Jasper Smith, Richard Wilday, Thomas Townsend, John Thorne, Anthony Field, John Adams, Richard Stockton, James Whittaker, Hugh Copperthwaite, Richrd Chew, James Clement, Margaret Stiles, Samuel Thorne, Thomas Hedges, William Haviland, Thomas Hicks, John Terry, David Patrick, James Feake, Thomas Kimacry, Phillip Udall, Thomas Davis, Edward Farrington, Thomas Farrington, Matthew Farrington, John Field, Joseph Hedger, John Tahnan, William Gael, William White, Elizabeth Smith, Thomas Partiridge, William Hedger and Benjamin Field, the present freeholders and inhabitants of the said Towne of Flushing, their heires and Assignes for Ever, all the before recited tract and parcell or neck of land set forth, limited and bounded as aforesaid by the aforementioned patent, Indian deed of sale, and agreements; together with all and singular the houses, Messages, Tenements, Fencings, Buildings, Gardens, Orchards, Trees, Woods, Underwoods, Highways and Easements, whatsoever belonging or in any ways appertaining to any of the above recited tract, Parcell or neck of land, divisions, Allottments and settlements made and appropriated before the day and date hereof. * * * And as for and connecting all and every such parcell or parcells, tract or tracts of land and Meadow Remainder of the Granted premissess not yet taken up or appropriated to any particular person or persons before the day the date hereof, to the use and behoof of the purchasers above recited and to their heires and assigns for Ever, to be Equally divided in proportion to the above recited Inhabitants and Freeholders aforesaid and to their respective heires and assignes for Ever, without any let, hindrance or molestacion, to be had or reserved upon pretence of joint tenancy or survivorship, or anything herein Contained to the Contrary in anywise notwithstanding: To be holden to his Most Sacred Majesty, his heires and successors, in free and Common Socage, according to the tenure of East Greenwich in the Kingdom of England, Yielding therefore and paying Yearely and Every Yeare an acknowledgement or Quit-rent to his Majesty, his heires and successors as aforesaid, or to such officer or officers as shall by him or them be appointed to receive the same, at New Yorke, in lieu of all services and demands whatsoever, Sixteen bushels of good Marchantable winter wheate on Every five and twentieth day of March."
Excerpts from Gazetteer of the State of New York, by J.H. French, 1860:
"ORIGINAL PATENTEES: Thomas Farrington, JOHN LAWRENCE, John Hicks, John Townsend, Thomas Stiles, Robert Field, Thomas Saul, John Marston, Thomas Applegate, Lawrence Dutch, WILLIAM LAWRENCE, Henry Sawtell, William Thorne, Michael Willard, Robert Firman and Willam Widgeon."
Note: The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, by George Frederick
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