{"id":333,"date":"2011-10-28T04:47:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/?p=333"},"modified":"2014-09-24T07:20:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T11:20:53","slug":"lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"LAWRENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The supposition seems very plausible, that the family by this name in Perq, came as so many others had done, from Nansemond Co Va, where John Lawrence, was living very early, according to the records of Isle of Wight Co. These records show that Ann Exum of Isle of Wight, wife of Jeremiah, appears to be a daughter of said John Lawrence. No proofs are to be found, but he probably came south with the immigration from New England, where he married Elizabeth Adkinson, 8, 12mo 1653. (Records of Boston.) The Lawrence family appeared in Perq Co, N. C. simultaneously with the Clare\u2019s, and others, about 1680-85. The land of John Lawrence adj that of Timothy Clare, July 30, 1701, and said Timothy married for his last, &amp; third wife, Hannah (widow of Israel Snelling, n\u00e9e Larance) before 1705.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lawrence, William, m Rachel Welsh, issue: 1 Elizabeth, b Dec 24, 1655\u20142 Will Larance, b July 20, 1661\u20143 Rachell, b Apl 16, 1665\u20144 John, b Mar 14, 1667\u20145 Hannah, b Dec 1, 1669, m 1st Israel Snelling, July 30, 1687, issue: 1 Rachell, b Aug 17, 1690\u20142 Ester, b Sept 20, 1699, m John Winslow. (See Hannah Clares will, Grimes.) Hannah Lawrence, m 2d Timothy Clare, &amp; had dau Hannah, who m Benjamin Bundy, before Aug 26, 1726.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Lawrence (2) William (William 1) m Margaret Bogue Jany 7, 1689. He died Aug 13, 1694, when Margaret m 2d Francis Toms Jr, son of Francis Sr.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Lawrence (2) John (William 1) m Hannah Bundy, \u201cat a quarterly meeting at Francis Toms ys\u201d 22, \u2014 1692, issue: 1 William, b Jan 3, 1693\u20142 Elizabeth, b Jan 12, 1695\/6, m Thomas Meriday. (See Deed book A, No 325.) John Lawrence died, Oct 28, 1700.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>William Lawrence, son of John, &amp; Hannah, died Aug 27, 1697.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>William Lawrence (2) will p in Albemarle (Perq) Aug 1694, names dau\u2019s: Jane and Rachell, wife Margaret; Cousin\u2019s: Rachel Snelling (sister) and William Lawrence. Exrs: Israel Snelling, &amp; John Lawrence.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong class=\"last\" style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #000000\">Source:\u00a0History of Perquimans County\u00a0by Ellen Goode Rawlings Winslow, (1931).<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The supposition seems very plausible, that the family by this name in Perq, came as so many others had done, from Nansemond Co Va, where John Lawrence, was living very early, according to the records of Isle of Wight Co. These records show that Ann Exum of Isle of Wight, wife of Jeremiah, appears to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/lawrence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LAWRENCE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[35731,21491,30249,33026,35730,6842,35732,33201,32000,35553,30830],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-families-of-perquimans-county","tag-adkinson","tag-bogue","tag-bundy","tag-clare","tag-exum","tag-lawrence","tag-meriday","tag-snelling","tag-toms","tag-welsh","tag-winslow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8873,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/8873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/perquimans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}