John Lawrence and Sarah Moffitt

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Husband John Lawrence ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
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           Died: Abt 1789 - Adams Co, PA
         Buried: 

       Marriage:  - near Hunterstown, Adams Co, PA

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Wife Sarah Moffitt ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Sarah Moffet 3
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Children

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1 F Mary Lawrence ⁴

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           Born: 
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           Died: 2 Sep 1808 4
         Buried:  - Pigeon Creek U. P. Cemetery, Washington Co, PA

         Spouse: James Weir (Abt 1770-1827) 4

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2 F Jane Lawrence ⁵

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           Born: Abt 1777
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           Died: 11 Feb 1847 5
         Buried:  - Pigeon Creek U. P. Cemetery, Washington Co, PA

         Spouse: William Weir (Abt 1771-1840) 5

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3 M John Lawrence ^{1 2 6}

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           Died:  - Delaware Co, OH
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4 M Samuel Lawrence ^{1 2 6}

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           Died: Abt 1828 - ? Beaver Co, PA
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5 M Hon. Joseph Lawrence ^{1 7 8 9 10}

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           Born: 1788 - Adams Co, PA 2
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           Died: 7 Apr or 17 Apr 1842 - Washington, D. C. 1 7 8
         Buried:  - Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D. C. 7

         Spouse: Rebecca Van Eman (1787-1822) 1 8 9 10 11
           Marr: 1812 or 1813 12

         Spouse: Maria Bucher (1802-1861) 1 12 13
           Marr: 4 Sep 1823 2

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General Notes: Husband - John Lawrence

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Those of the name Lawrence who became prominent in Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania are supposed to have sprung from brothers who came to America from England at an early day. A son of one of these settled in Adams County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1770, where he afterward died, leaving a family of ten children.
About the year 1788 his widow, with this large family, came over the mountains when there was only a pathway, the mother carrying the youngest son, Joseph (then three years old), on her knee on horseback. They settled on a small farm on the headwaters of Pigeon creek, eight miles east of Washington, Pennsylvania, in a cabin, and there the family - seven daughters and three sons - grew up. In time the daughters all married in Washington County, and raised families.

Of English birth, he emigrated to America at an early day, and settled near Hunterstown, Adams County, Pennsylvania. There he married and he and his wife had ten children. He died about 1789, and three years afterward his widow removed with her family to Washington County, Pennsylvania, and settled on a farm lying upon the headwaters of Pigeon creek. [HWC 1882, 597]

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 597.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 128.

3 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 516.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 419.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 420.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 94.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 97, 425.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 434.

9 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 129.

10 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 85.

11 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 272, 425.

12 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 97.

13 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 126.