William Lawrence and Mary Townley

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Husband William Lawrence ¹

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Wife Mary Townley ¹

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1 M William Lawrence ¹

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2 F [Unk] Lawrence

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         Spouse: [Unk] Van Hook (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Townley

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She was descended from the English Lords Townley, who were prominent Roman Catholics, and lived in Lancashire, where they held large estates. She was a sister of the then Lord Townley, the head of the family. She became a Protestant, and married William Lawrence, which so scandalized her Roman Catholic brother that he forbade her ever entering his house again. She went with her husband and many others in that famous emigration to Holland which preceded the Puritan emigration to the shores of New England.
After a residence of two years, she and her husband set sail from the harbor of Delft Haven for America, with Plymouth, Massachusetts, as their destination. Their reckoning became lost in a severe storm during the passage, and they were compelled to land at the mouth of the Hudson, among the Dutch settlements.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 324.