Joseph LAWRENCE

   Ancestral File Number: 8THR-4D.

   General Notes:

Admitted Freeman 15 May 1672, Took Freeman's Oath 1679.

BOOKS
A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England, John Farmer, Genealogical Publishing Co, Lancaster MA 1829, p174 JOHN LAWRENCE, Watertown, freeman 1637, whose wife was Elizabeth, had children...Joseph b 1643...

Genealogies, Families, and Descendants of Early Settlers of Watertown MA, Vol I, Genealogies, Henry Bond MD, Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1855, p819:
"(I.) John Lawrence settled in Watertown probably in 1635 as his eldest child was born there 14 Mar 1635/1636. His name is on the earliest list of proprietorsextant, and he was adm freeman 17 Apr 1637. The date of his arrival in Americal has not been ascertained nor is it known whether he was married before or after his arrival. Nothing has yet been ascertained from American records or archives with respect to his parentage or ancestry...
p820: "...Children...
4. Joseph b Mar, d May 1642.
4.5. Joseph b 30 May 1643, and ex'r of his father's Will, adm freeman 15 May 1672; m 1670/1671 ?Rebecca ____. He was probably the Joesph Lawrence who, by wife Rebecca had dau Rebecca Bap in the 1st Church of Boston 1 Feb 1679/ 1680, and who d 14 Nov 1685. It is conjectured that the persons making the following Will were his wife and daughter. The Will of Rebecca Lawrence (?of Boston) date 18 Jul, proved 12 Dec 1726, gives her estate to her mother Rebecca. The Will of wid Rebecca Lawrence, dated 27 Sep, proved 11 Oct 1731..."

A Genealogical Memoir of the Families of Lawrences with Direct Male Line from Sir Robert lawrence of Lancashire AD 1190 Down to John Lawrence of Watertown AD 1636 Mercy Hale Boston 1856.
p5: "(1) Family No. 1. John and Elizabeth had as follows:...
"(4) III. Joseph, b. Jan 1642, d. 30 Mar 1642.
"(5) IV. Joseph, b. 30 Mar 1643, m. 1670/1671, took freeman's oath 1679. A proprietor of land in Groton."

Pedigree of Lawrence Compiled from Heralds' Visitations, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Deeds, Charters, Wills, Parish Registers, and other Original Manuscripts H G Somerby Esq Boston CS71.L42 1856:
"...John Lawrence baptized at Wisset Oct 8, 1609; came to New England in 1630, and settled at Watertown. In 1662 he removed to Groton, where he died July 11, 1667, aged 58. He is named in a deposition of his brother Robert, dated 1639, as of New England...Elizabeth first wife died at Groton, Aug. 29, 1663... Son Joseph..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.13 8THR-4D Joseph LAWRENCE Born 30 May 1643 Watertown Suffolk Massachusetts, Spouse G8B5-V7 Rebecca FREEMAN Mar 1671 Massachusetts, Died 30 May 1642 Apparentlyin Ch.

Ancestral File Ver 4.13 H15V-WB Joseph LAWRENCE Born 1 Mar 1642 Watertown Middlesex MA, Mar NRCS-PB Rebecca UNKNOWN, Died 30 May 1642 Watertown Suffolk Massachusetts.

   Marriage Information:

Joseph married Rebecca FREEMAN in 1670-1671 in , , Massachusetts, USA.