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La8 Benjamin Lawrence

Lawrence Pedigree possible pedigree connections 1. Lawrence of Ashton, Lawrence of Sevenhampton, Lawrence of Shurdington, Lawrence of Washington 2. Lawrence of Affpuddle, Lawrence of Chelsea, Lawrence (Laurence) of Creech Grange 3. Lawrence One Name SearchDNA results

American Progenitor: La12 Benjamin Lawrence I  (born in Accomac Co. Va between 1620 and 40 in ?Wilts, England d after 1674) and Ann Ascomb

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Benjamin Lawrence,

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Elizabeth Talbott (Ta11) born in 1661 daughter of Richard Talbott (Ta12) and Elizabeth Ewen (Owen) (Ew12).

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Benjamin Lawrence  b 13 May 1677 d about 1728

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Rachel Moriarti (Ma10) daughter of Edward Moriarti (Mo11) and Honore Elder (Ed11) of Anne Arundel County 5th Dec. 1701

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Elizabeth Lawrence (8th Dec. 1702 - ) :married ¬

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Benjamin Lawrence (27th Jan 1704/5 - )  married (Do9-4) Ruth Dorsey. m2 Nathaniel Rumney

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Rachel Lawrence

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Captain Philemon Dorsey.  Nathan Harris.

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Ruth Lawrence

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Leavin Lawrence  Born: 1711/12, March 6, Maryland, died: 1756, Maryland, following a hunting accident. His will, February 27, 1756, November 9, 1756, is recorded in Liber B.T.#2 of Wills, Folio 287, .Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

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Susannah Dorsey (Do9).

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Elizabeth Lawrence b about 1749 in Anne Arundel Co d aabout 1785  m Christopher Owings son of Samuel Owings b 1 Apr 1702 and Ruth Urath Randall b Jan 1712/13 b 16 Feb 1743/4 in Baltimore 1. Beal Owings b about 1770 in Baltimore m Ruth Dorsey b about 1765 in Anne Arundel Co and had a. Ruth Owings b about 1791 in Md m Vachel Dorsey b about 1790 in Md and had i. Caroline Mary Dorsey m Thomas Carr Chiles b about 1790 and had Emily Thomas Chiles b 13 Jan in Ky d after 1870 in Distr. 2 Jefferson Co Ky m E.L. Dorsey and had Laura b 1852, Matilda b 1854 Anna b 1857 and Charley b 1859/60 b. Samuel Christopher Owings b Sep 1793 in baltimore m1 Mary Yellot Willis b about 1796 and had i. Sarah Catherine Tilden b about 1816 in Baltimore c. Elizabeth Dorsey Owings b 25 Aug 1798 in Baltimore m Samuel Owings Moal b 13 Jan 1796 in baltimore i. Ellen N. Moale b 1827  ii. Maria Moale b 1830 2. Christopher Owings b 2 Jul 1776 in Baltimore n Charlotte Worthington and hadWashington Owings b 12 Apr 1812 in Fredrick Co Md  m Hannah Riner b 4 Mar 1815 in Frederick Co and had Rebecca Owings b Oct 1837 in Frederick Co  m Dr Daniel Edwin Stone b 29 Dec 1839 In Loudoun Va had Leonor and Daniel E. Jr.

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Rachel Lawrence (3rd May 1739 - 12th Aug. 1808) m1 Capt. Philemon Dorsey (20th Jan. 1715 - ) on 13th Dec. 1759, and had La8-2-1 Henrietta Dorsey b: 20 FEB 1766 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland La8-2-2 Ariana Dorsey b: 24 MAR 1769 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland m2 Nathan Harris b: 31 JUL 1742 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland son of Thomas Harris b 27 Mar 1699 in Pr Georges Co Md and Sarah Offutt b 2 Apr 1709 in Pr Georges Co Md Married: 19 JAN 1775 La8-2-3 Harriet Harris b: 5 NOV 1775 La8-2-4 Cordelia Harris b: 10 APR 1778

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Benjamin Lawrence was the born: 17 May, 1741,  in  Maryland. Delaware Hundred in Howard County was his home. Died: March 5, 1814,   Jefferson County, Kentucky, at "Eden" his farm, between the State Pike and the Taylorsville Road,  owned in 1950 by the Cooke Brothers, automobile dealers, and called "Gold Acres", where he is buried in a stone box grave.

Benjamin Lawrence (17 May 1741 - 05 Mar 1814) & his wife Urath Randall Owings (07 Jul 1738 - 17 Sep 1807) are both buried in the Lawrence Family Cemetery - Bellemeade, Jefferson, KY. 6 Jan., 1776, he was commissioned 2d. lieut. in his brother-in-law Richard Owings' company of the Soldiers' Delight battalion, Baltimore co. militia. In 1799 he removed with his family to Jefferson co., Ky., near Louisville; and on his plantation, Eden, built the first stone house in the county.

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28th January 1762 inSt. Thomas Church in Baltimore,Maryland, to Urith (also spelled Urath) Randall Owings (Ow8) (26th Sept(?Jan.) 1738 -  17th Dec.(?Sept.) 1807).

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Samuel Lawrence (30th Oct. 1762-16th Nov 1763)

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Samuel Lawrence (20th/?28th Sept. 1764 - 17th Sept. 1822)

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Sarah Hobbs (Ho7) (born: 1769, June 29, died: 1829, September 19).

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James Brown Lawrence (1790- by 1828).

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Urith Owings Lawrence (1791 - 1854).

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James Brown III. (Br6) Died: 1854, January 2, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Buried in Brown Grave Yard, in Browns Lane, above St. Matthews, Kentucky.

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(Br5) Sarah Lawrence Brown b. July 12, 1810 - 1884.

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Elizabeth C. Brown

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Samuel L. Brown

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Caroline Brown

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Alfred Brown

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Mary Ann Brown

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Theodore Brown

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Emeline Brown

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James L. Brown

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Francis C. Brown

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Arthur Brown

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Benjamin II Lawrence (7 Sep 1795 in Baltimore Co. Md. -1874).

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Elhannon or Elbannon Lawrence (23 Nov 1797 in Baltimore Co. Md. -1798).

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Elias Dorsey Lawrence (1 Aug 1799 in Jefferson Co. Ky- 18 June 1828).

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Married Mary Ann Peachy Fry, daughter of Joshua Fry and Peachy Walker,  on 14 August 1823. She married 2nd, Dr. Lewis Warner Green of Danville on 9 April 1834 in Danville.

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a. Samuel Lawrence (b. 1824, d. by 1828)

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. Joshua Fry Lawrence (b. 14 February 1824, d. 1893). He graduated from Jefferson College in Ganonsburg Pa. He married his cousin, Urith Lawrence Pope on 2 December 1851, and was a planter in Jefferson Co., Ky., '47— served in the Kentucky Legislature 1865-69 .

La6-6 Washington Lawrence (1800-1801).

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Mary Jane (called Polly) Lawrence (20th/?28 Feb .1767- 20th Aug. 1810),

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17 FEB 1786 in Baltimore , MD, Elias Dorsey b: ABT 1759, Death: 20 SEP 1794 Vachel DORSEY; Maryland. He married first Susanna Snowden and had two daughters by her. He was in a milling business partnership with Thomas Dorsey and Benjamin Lawrence. In his will he directed the mill to be sold. In will he named his daughters Mary and Ruth. Apparently Mary married La7-6 Levin Lawrence.

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William Chambers b: 1 MAY 1764 in New York, Death: AFT 1810 in Jefferson Co., Kentucky Married: AFT 1794

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Mary Lawrence Chambers b: AUG 1810 in Merrydale, Jefferson Co., Kentucky, 1891 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Kentucky. She lived in Louisville Ward 4, Jefferson, Kentucky

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Robert Tyler b: 14 SEP 1805 in Jefferson Co., Kentucky. He was a lawyer Married: 1827

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W. c. Tyler b about 1830

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Mary L. Tyler b about 1835

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Ann E. Tyler b about 1838

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Emma Tyler b about 1842

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Frances S. Tyler b about1846

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Roberta Tyler b about 1849

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Susannah Lawrence (4th May 1769-1818),

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Edward Dorsey (1762-1804) on 22nd Feb. 1786 in first Baptist Church at Vale of Eden

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Urith Dorsey b. 24 Dec 1788

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Patience Dorsey+ b. 23 Apr 1789

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Mary Ann Dorsey b: 13 SEP 1791

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19 APR 1808 m Basil Nicholas Hobbs b: 1786, Death: 1837 son of Nicholas Hobbs b: 22 SEP 1746 and Elizabeth Cummings Cu8 b: 1752

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Susan Evaline Hobbs b: 18 JUN 1809 in Kentucky , Death: AFT 1870 in Galveston, Texas married Alfred Peyton Luckett b: 12 MAY 1801 in Loudoun Co., Virginia

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Elias Dorsey+ b. 7 Jun 1796, d. 1871

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Susannah Dorsey b. 22 Aug 1798 Levin Dorsey b. 19 Dec 1799 Benjamin Lawrence Dorsey b. 13 Feb 1802 Urith Owings Dorsey b. 5 Oct 1804

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Capt. John Williamson circa 1806.

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Susan Evaline Hobbs b: 18 JUN 1809 in Kentucky, Death: AFT 1870 in Galveston, Texas. living in 1850 in District 78, St Charles, Missouri, in 1860 - District 2, Jefferson, Kentucky

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Matilda Dorsey b. 1794

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Elias Dorsey b: 7 JUN 1796 in Anne Arundel , Maryland

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Levin Lawrence Dorsey b: 19 DEC 1799 in Baltimore Co, Marylandm2 Jno. Williamson

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Rebecca Lawrence {4th Jul. 1771 in Owings Mills Baltimore Co., Md. - 12 May l822 in Jefferson Co. Ky.}

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Richard Winchester (1755 - 1817 aged 61), son of William Winchester and Lydia Richards

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Levin Lawrence (b 8th Apr.1774 - 27th July1846)

m married Mary Snowden Dorsey (?28 'Feb 1767/?1780 - 26th Apr. 1852/?Death: 6/20 AUG 1810 in 'Merrydale' in Middletown, Jefferson Co., Ky. ) The census of 1810 shows 1 male 10-15, 1 male 16-25, 1 male 26-44, 1 female 26-44, 9 slaves; while the 1840 census shows 2 males 10-15, 1 male 15-20, 2 males 20-29, 1 male 60-69, 1 female 20-29, 1 female 60-69, 32 slaves.

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Elizabeth Lawrence ( 2nd May 1778-7th Feb. 1814 aged 36)

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Wm. Rose Hynes in 1800 Benjamin Hynes d 1828

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(La8-4) John Dorsey (or Levin) Lawrence* (b. 1740 or 26 Oct 1743 in Anne Arundel, Md; died 18 Dec 1798  Anne Arundel, Md.)

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Sarah Dorsey in 1763

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Hammond Dorsey Lawrence (La8-4-1) by Sarah Dorsey. and/or

www.lawrence-ons.org/ben2.html reports 3 known children by Martha West

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Martha West, 20 Apr.1766 in Md., lived at Valley farm, Linganore Hills,

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and had ?1/M John Stephen LAWRENCE Birth: 14 Oct 1774 Maryland Marriage: 1 Jan 1805 Sarah Maria SHRINER (b. 9 Jun 1790, d. 14 Apr 1857); Maryland Daughter: __ ___ 1805 Martha Eve LAWRENCE; Maryland Daughter: __ ___ ____ Sarah Margaret LAWRENCE; Maryland Census: 6 Aug 1810 Frederick Co., Maryland (1 male 16-26, 1 male 26-45, 2 females 0-10, 1 female 10-16, 1 female 26-45, 13 slaves) Son: 25 Nov 1811 John Peter LAWRENCE; Frederick Co., Maryland Son: 29 May 1818 Charles Augustus LAWRENCE; Frederick Co., Maryland Son: __ ___ 1820 Stephen Decatur LAWRENCE; Frederick Co., Maryland Census: 15 Nov 1820 District 8, Frederick Co., Maryland (3 males 0-10, 1 male 18-26, 1 male 26-45, 1 male 45+, 1 female 0-10, 2 females 10-16, 1 female 16-26, 1 female 26-45) Daughter: __ ___ ____ Emma West LAWRENCE; Frederick Co., Maryland Daughter: __ ___ ____ Anna Lavinia LAWRENCE; Frederick Co., Maryland Census: 1 Jun 1830 District 8, Frederick Co., Maryland (2 males 10-15, 1 male 15-20, 1 male 40-49, 1 male 50-59, 2 females 0-5, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 20-29, 1 female 40-49) Death: 7 Oct 1839 Frederick Co., Maryland

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Upton Sheredine LAWRENCE Birth: 21 Jul 1779 Maryland Marriage: 31 Jan 1803 Elizabeth HAGER (b. 1 Aug 1785, d. 5 Aug 1867); Maryland Son: __ ___ 1805 Jonathan LAWRENCE; Maryland Son: __ ___ 1807 Upton Hager LAWRENCE; Maryland Daughter: __ Aug 1815 Matilda Hoffman LAWRENCE; Hagerstown, Washington Co., Maryland Daughter: __ ___ 1817 Martha West LAWRENCE; Washington Co., Maryland Daughter: __ ___ 1819 Elizabeth Ann LAWRENCE; Washington Co., Maryland Daughter: __ ___ 1820 Mary Ann Hoffman LAWRENCE; Washington Co., Maryland Census: 28 Oct 1820 Hagerstown, Washington Co., Maryland (1 male 0-10, 1 male 10-16, 1 male 26-45, 3 females 0-10, 1 female 26-45, 1 female 45+) Daughter: 14 Sep 1822 Barbra LAWRENCE; Hagerstown, Washington Co., Maryland Death: 31 Mar 1824 Hagerstown, Washington Co., Maryland Burial: __ ___ ____ Old Zion's Churchyard, Hagerstown, Maryland

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3/F Margarette LAWRENCE, Birth: 2 Sep 1781 Maryland Marriage: circa 1810 Richard TALBOTT (b. ca. 1787, d. ? ); Maryland

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Levin Lawrence b 1750 in Anne Arundel, Md. d 31 Mar 1805

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29 Aug 1786 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Sarah DORSEY, Birth: 31 Oct 1763 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland dau of Caleb Dorsey b 8 Jul 1740 in Anne Arundel Co and Rebecca hammond b 28 Aug 1741 and granddau of   John Ely Dorsey b: 7 OCT 1708 in Anne Arundel County, MD and Elizabeth Dorsey b: 6 MAR 1719/20 in Anne Arundel and great granddau of Caleb Dorsey b: 11 NOV 1685 in Hockley, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland and Eleanor Warfield b: 10 JUL 1683 in Anne Arundel County, MD. Eleanor Warfield was the dau of Richard Warfield b 27 Aug 1646 in England and Eleanor Browne b 1649 in England Census: 6 Aug 1810 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (1 male 10-16, 3 males 16-26, 1 female 0-10, 1 female 10-16, 1 female 16-26, 1 female 26-45, 1 female 45+, 30 slaves) Death: __ Mar 1820 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland , Father: Caleb DORSEY , Mother: Rebecca HAMMOND (b. 28 Aug 1741, d. 6 Oct 1797)

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Caleb Dorsey LAWRENCE Birth: 1 Jan 1787 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Death: 31 Aug 1787 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland

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Caleb LAWRENCE Birth: __ ___ 1793 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Census: 7 Aug 1820 District 5, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (1 male 26-45, 1 female 16-26, 7 slaves)

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Larkin LAWRENCE Birth: __ ___ 1794 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Census: 7 Aug 1820 District 5, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (1 male 26-45, 7 slaves) Census: 1 Jun 1830 District 6, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (1 male 30-39, 1 female 5-9, 1 female 10-14, 1 female 20-29) Marriage: 14 Jan 1840 Theresa Josephine BROWN (b. 1813, d. 2 Apr 1889), daughter of Moses BROWN; Missouri Census: 1 Jun 1840 Lincoln Co., Missouri (1 male 15-19, 1 male 40-49, 1 female 20-29) Daughter: 30 Oct 1841 Mary Elizabeth LAWRENCE; Lincoln Co., Missouri Daughter: 26 Dec 1842 Sarah Ann LAWRENCE; Lincoln Co., Missouri Daughter: __ ___ 1845 Ann LAWRENCE; Lincoln Co., Missouri Daughter: 25 Aug 1848 Jane Dorsey LAWRENCE; Lincoln Co., Missouri Son: 20 Sep 1849 Larkin D. LAWRENCE; Lincoln Co., Missouri Census: 1 Jun 1850 District 49, Lincoln Co., Missouri (farmer $1000) Son: 12 Jul 1852 Levin LAWRENCE; Lincoln Co., Missouri Death: 15 Mar 1857 Lincoln Co., Missouri

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/F Rebecca LAWRENCE Birth: 6 Dec 1796 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Marriage: 3 Oct 1820 David WATERS (b. 12 Oct 1796, d. 29 Jun 1838); Maryland Son: 19 Aug 1821 George Washington WATERS; Maryland Daughter: 10 Oct 1823 Mary Ann WATERS; Maryland Son: 6 Jul 1829 Richard D. WATERS; Maryland Census: 1 Jun 1830 District 6, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (1 male 0-5, 1 male 5-10, 1 male 30-39, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 30-39)

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Hammond Dorsey LAWRENCE Birth: __ Oct 1797 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Marriage: __ ___ ____ Louisa SHIPLEY (b. 25 Jan 1802, d. 18 May 1858), daughter of Richard SHIPLEY; Maryland Census: 7 Aug 1820 District 5, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (1 male 18-25, 3 slaves) Son: 20 Sep 1820 Richard Dorsey LAWRENCE; Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Son: 12 Mar 1824 Francis Lafayette LAWRENCE; Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Census: 1 Jun 1830 District 6, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (2 males 5-9, 1 male 30-39, 1 female 20-29) Daughter: 18 Feb 1831 Sarah Elizabeth LAWRENCE; Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Son: 3 Nov 1832 Larkin Hammond LAWRENCE; Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Daughter: 15 Mar 1834 Josephine Louise LAWRENCE; Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Son: 8 Jun 1835 Edward Thomas LAWRENCE; Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Daughter: 10 Feb 1837 Mary Margaret LAWRENCE; Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Son: 24 Oct 1839 Caleb Van Buren LAWRENCE; Hanover, Washington Co., Pennsylvania Census: 1 Jun 1840 Hanover, Washington Co., Pennsylvania (1 male 0-5, 2 males 5-10, 1 male 30-39, 1 female 0-5, 2 females 5-10, 1 female 30-39) Son: 18 Jul 1841 George Benton LAWRENCE; Hanover, Washington Co., Pennsylvania Son: 10 Feb 1843 John Polk LAWRENCE; Hanover, Washington Co., Pennsylvania Death: 12 Aug 1844 Holliday Cove, Brooke Co., West Virginia

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Caroline Dorsey LAWRENCE Birth: __ ___ 1799 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Marriage: 3 Nov 1818 Joshua OWINGS (b. 4 Aug 1794, d. ? ); Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Daughter: 12 Mar 1820 Sarah OWINGS; Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Daughter: __ ___ 1822 Mary Ann OWINGS; Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Daughter: __ ___ 1826 Ann OWINGS; Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Death: 24 Aug 1871

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Sarah Dorsey LAWRENCE Birth: 25 Dec 1805 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Marriage: 26 Sep 1831 John Henry KEENE (b. 12 Dec 1806, d. 15 Jun 1894); Maryland Daughter: 4 Jul 1832 Ann Hall KEENE; Baltimore Co., Maryland Daughter: 1 Oct 1833 Elizabeth Dorsey KEENE; Baltimore Co., Maryland Son: 26 Nov 1835 John Henry KEENE; Baltimore Co., Maryland Son: 2 Jan 1837 Robert Goldsborough KEENE; Baltimore Co., Maryland Daughter: 14 Jul 1839 Sarah Ann KEENE; Baltimore Co., Maryland Son: 22 Dec 1840 James KEENE; Baltimore Co., Maryland Son: __ Jun 1842 William Caroosto KEENE; Baltimore Co., Maryland Son: 25 Aug 1843 Charles Ridout KEENE; Baltimore Co., Maryland Daughter: 25 Mar 1846 Mary Hollingsworth KEENE; Baltimore Co., Maryland Daughter: 6 Apr 1849 Laura Eleanora KEENE; Baltimore Co., Maryland Census: 1 Jun 1850 District 2, Baltimore Co., Maryland (farmer $20,000)

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Ruth Lawrence (b 22 Dec 1745 ¬ 27 Jul 1827 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland) Marriage: 27 Nov 1760 Thomas OWINGS; Ann Arundel Co., Maryland

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Margaret Lawrence (1756 - Death: __ ___ 1835 Leonardstown, Maryland

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Richard Lawrence (1757¬

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Margaret Lawrence. Born: 1756. Died: 1835.

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Richard Lawrence, , Born: before 1755. Married: 3 times (either the dates first marriage was at a very young age  or the ages in the census returns are all wrong. Assuming the tally was correct we have the list of children below, unless some of the children were nephews or nieces or other foster children). Died: about 1829 at “Whitehall” at Guilford. Served in General Otho H. Williams Company in the Revolution.  Census: 2 Aug 1790 Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland (2 male >16, 2 females: these sons must be by a wife before Ann Warfield ) Census: 4 Aug 1800 Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland (1 male 10-16, 2 males 16-26, 1 male 45+, 1 female 0-10, 2 females 10-16, 1 female 16-26, 1 female 26-45 = Charlotte Warfield) Census: 6 Aug 1810 Ward 8, Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland (1 male 0-10, 1 male 10-15, 3 males 16-26, 1 male 45+, 2 females 0-10, 1 female 16-26, 2 females 26-45, 4 slaves) Census: 7 Aug 1820 Ward 1, Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland (1 male 0-10, 1 male 10-16, 1 male 45+, 1 female 10-16, 1 female 16-26, 1 female 45+) Death: __ ___ 1829 Baltimore Co., Maryland

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y Lawrence b about 1773 d or m before 1820

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y Lawrence b about 1774 d or m before 1820

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Ann Warfield b about 1767 married: 6 MAR 1780 in Frederick Co., Maryland  dau of  Rezin Warfield b: 16 MAY 1740 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland and Honor Elder Howard b: 27 MAR 1740 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland and granddau of Alexander Warfield b: 1701 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland and Dinah Davidge b: 1705 in Maryland and grandson of Richard Warfield b: 1676 in Anne Arundel, Maryland and Ruth Cruchley b: 1683 in Anne Arundel, Maryland Source: Samuel and Fonda Flax Carroll

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x Lawrence b about 1781 d or m before 1800

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x Lawrence b about 1783

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5 Otho Williams Lawrence b: 1790 in Anne Arundel , Maryland

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6 y Lawrence b about 1802

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7 x Lawrence b about 1804 d or m before 1820

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8 x Lawrence b about 1807

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9 y Lawrence b about 1812

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m3 Charlotte Warfield b 25 OCT 1793 in Montgomery Co., Maryland Married: 3 SEP  dau of Joseph Warfield b: 19 FEB 1758 in Anne Arundel , Maryland and Elizabeth Dorsey b: 8 DEC 1761 in Maryland and granddau of  Dr. Joshua Warfield b: 17 OCT 1724 in Anne Arundel, MD and Rachel Howard b: 2 APR 1732 in Anne Arundel, MD 1824 in Montgomery Co., Maryland

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10 Nicholas Otho Lawrence

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Richard Joseph Lawrence b: 16 OCT 1827

geocities.com/lhumphrey.geo/p97.htm also shows two daughters for this marriage:

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Elizabeth Lawrence b. 25 Feb 1678/79 at West River, Anne Arundel Co. d 7 Oct 1700 in Anne Arundel Co. m John Gassaway and had issue. Benjamin Lawrence+ b. 13 May 1677 at West River, Anne Arundel Co.

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Lucy Talbot Lawrence+   b. 1685 in West River, Anne Arundel Co. Md. d 1727

ysearch.org/JETD7 shows

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John Belt son of John Belt of Norfolk Co. Va. and Elizabeth Tydings and grandson of Humphrey Belt and Anne of Gravesend, Engl.

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John Belt b 1703 Baltimore Co. Md d 1 Dec 1788 m Lucy

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John Belt

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John R. Belt b about 1773 Butler Ohio d about 1843

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Nancy Ann Swaney/Sweaney

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Nancy Ann Belt b21 Mar 1811 Butler Ohio d 20 May 1867 Chico, Butte, Cal.

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Richard Belt b 1706 in Baltimore Co. Md.

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Higginson BELT b 1710 in Anne Arundel Co.

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Leonard BELT was born about 1714 in Baltimore Co., MD. He died in Sep 1793 in Montgomery Co., MD.

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Sarah BELT b about 1707 .

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Mary BELT b about 1715 in Md.

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Joseph BELT was born about 1707.

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Lucy BELT.

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Elizabeth BELT.

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Margaret BELT. She was born in 1685.

Appendix La8
 Benjamin Lawrence (La8) was on the Committee of Observation for  his section, (Delaware Hundred) in Howard County. He built a mill on Delaware Bottom. He was a Commissioner in Maryland during the Revolution according to Anne S. Anderson.
He removed to Kentucky in 1799, following his son Samuel Lawrence II (La7) who came to Jefferson County, Kentucky, from Baltimore County, Maryland, arriving May 12, 1799, according to the Lawrence Bible.
Benjamin Lawrence (La8) settled at "Eden", as he called his choice of location, where his burying ground was still preserved in 1950, surrounded by a stone wall.
The “Dai1y Focus” an early newspaper carried an advertisement of the sale of “Edenland", ten miles East of Louisville at an early date, by Leaven Lawrence. This was perhaps his son, Leavin, and may have followed his father's death.
Copies of inscriptions on stone box graves at "Eden" were made by Mrs. George Nicholas (Ni3-5) and are as follows:

Sacred to the Memory of
 Benjamin Lawrence
who departed this life
 March 5, 1814
Aged 72 years 10 months.
 
 

Sacred to the Memory of
 Urath Lawrence
late Consort of Benjamin
 Lawrence
Who departed this life
 Dec. 17, 1807 (Alice Trabue's copy Sept. 17}
Aged 69 yrs. 2 mo. & 21 days

6 Jan., 1776, he was commissioned 2d. lieut. in his brother-in-law Richard Owings' company of the Soldiers' Delight battalion, Baltimore co. militia.

In 1799 he removed with his family to Jefferson co., Ky., near Louisville; and on his plantation, Eden, built the first stone house in the county.

They [Benjamin Lawrence & Urath Owings] are buried side by side in the family graveyard at Eden; the places marked by large flat slabs, bearing names and dates only.
 
 

Revolutionary War soldier gets his due
Grave site cleaned up at Shelby Campus

Nearly 200 years after Revolutionary War soldier Benjamin Lawrence was buried in eastern Jefferson County, he has been rediscovered by a Desert Storm veteran who is making sure Lawrence is honored.

The family cemetery in which Lawrence was buried is near the back entrance to the University of Louisville's Shelby Campus off Whipps Mills Road, next to homes in Bellemeade. It is encircled by an old stone wall and an 8-foot-tall, locked chain-link fence.

Navy veteran Ken Nichter of Fern Creek, a U of L hazardous-materials technician and a Cub Scout leader, happened upon the site during a geocaching hunt at the campus last summer.

He and a colleague were looking for a film canister stashed in a tree next to the cemetery during a scavenger hunt-type game played with portable global positioning system devices.

Nichter suggested a cleanup at the cemetery for an Eagle Scout project.

The cleanup has been completed, and on Saturday a new bronze "Patriot Marker" in the shape of an eight-pointed star will be installed at Lawrence's grave site by the Sons of the American Revolution.

"Working here at U of L, I was utterly ashamed to see a cemetery on our property in this bad of shape," Nichter said. The weeds were waist high and it was full of trash, he said. "To me that's disrespectful."

Nichter, a Cub Scout leader with Troop 56 at Fern Creek United Methodist Church, suggested the Eagle project to a Boy Scout with the troop, Ben Watson, 14, of Greenville, Ind.

On a recent Saturday, Ben and other Scouts and family members raked leaves and removed tree limbs from the cemetery. It was one of several Saturdays they worked there.

Ben said he was motivated by respect for Lawrence. "He's an important part of the history of Louisville," Ben said.

Nichter asked university library archivists for information about Lawrence and the cemetery. They found a 1978 article in a university publication written by John A. Dillon Jr., former vice president for academic affairs. He died last year.

Dillon wrote that the Daughters of the American Revolution had placed a name plaque on Lawrence's grave during the country's bicentennial in 1976.

The article said Lawrence was born in Maryland in 1741 and died in 1814. He came to Kentucky in 1798 and in 1800 purchased 377 acres in the area of today's Shelby Campus.
Dillon said Lawrence's children married into other leading families of the region, including that of Edward Dorsey Hobbs, founder of Anchorage.

"The ravages of time, of stone decay and especially of vandals have destroyed or obliterated most of the markings on the approximately 30 graves," Dillon wrote.

But he said he hoped the cemetery could be made presentable: "If one inherits a piece of the past as we did … it seems only right to attempt to maintain it for … future generations."

A parent in the troop is paying the $102 for the bronze marker, which will be put in the ground Saturday by Forrest Chilton of Middletown, president of the Sons of the American Revolution's Gov. Isaac Shelby Chapter in Shelbyville and a member of the group's Louisville-Thruston chapter.

"We're enjoying freedoms today that that gentleman helped make possible," Chilton said. He said he has marked about 30 graves in the state in the past 10 years, including one on the Fourth of July at a Lutheran cemetery off Watterson Trail in Jeffersontown.

Lucian Young, grounds superintendent for U of L, said that he didn't know a Revolutionary War soldier was buried in the cemetery and that he will try to improve its maintenance.

Published in the Courier-Journal - November 15, 2006

I descend from Benjamin & Urath's son Samuel Lawrence (29 Sep 1764 - 17 Sep 1822) who married Sarah Hobbs (03 Jul 1769 - 19 Sep 1828).  Let me know if you'd be interested in any information about them and I'll get back to you.

Sincerely,

David J. Peterie
 
 
 
 

Benjamin Lawrence, (1741-1814), scrved as second lieutenant of Baltimore County Militia.  He was born in Anne Arundel County, Md., and died in Jefferson County,Ky.