Notes:

. Robt. Montgomery, married secondly, June 22, 1788, Elizabeth, daughter. of Dr. James Newell of Allentown whose wife was Elizabeth Lawrence, & had 2 children. Mrs. Montgomery died May 21 1845, at the age of 93 years. Robt. Montgomery had died some years previous to this on July 5, 1828. He was buried at the old yard at Allentown. Leaving no son, he was succeeded in the representation of the family by Austin Montgomery, the son of this brother.
Ref: The Curio, Vol. 1, 1888.

Note1: Mrs. Montgomery would be Miss E Newell. Elizabeth Lawrence was her mother. - PJA 2010.

. Children of Robt. & Elisabeth Lawrence Newell are:
1.Esther Montgomery married her cousin Samuel Cooke Newell in 1817.
Their children Elizabeth Newell Married Wm. Passmore;
Sarah married Bennington Gill,
Robert, d. age 11;
Lucy married Theodore Stagg; and
Hetty Newell married Geo. W. Watson.

2. and Lucy Montgomery d. 1856, married Samuel Cook Newell.

. 'The Eglinton, NJ folk of those days were first Aunt Lucy, Miss Lucy Montgomery; she was Robert Montgomery's daughter,
& the sister of my grandmother, Esther Montgomery Newell, and it was she who inherited Eglinton.

. Then there was Cousin Eliza Lawrence; Elisha Lawrence was member of the General Assembly of New Jersey in 1721, his daughter Elizabeth Lawrence married my great-great-grandfather, Dr. James Newell, and Cousin Eliza Lawrence was the daughter of Elizabeth Lawrence's brother.'
Note2: Again apparently miss named by the author, Elizabeth Lawrence was the mother, and Elizabeth Newell was their daughter.
Ref: Those Paris Years, by Samuel N Watson, 1936. - - -

Died:
Aged 93 years.

Family/Spouse: Robert MONTGOMERY, .31. Robert was born in 1748 in Eglinton, New Jersey; died in 1838. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

James is the son of Robert and Ellen Newell of Upper Freehold, Monmouth.

. Returned to Monmouth to practice medicine.
1764 - Resided Allentown, Monmouth County.
1772 - Elected Pres. of NJ Medical Society
Surgeon to Second Regiment of Monmouth Co. Militia.

. Elected President of the NJ Medical Society in 1772. During the Revolution was surgeon to the 2nd Regiment of Monmouth Co. Militia.
Ref: NJ Colonial Documents.

On Dr. Newell's return form Edinburgh, he settled in Allentown. His circuit of practice embraced 25 miles over a rough country, which he performed on horseback. No members of this family currently alive/1879.
Ref: History of Medicine in NJ. Published 1879.

He died Feb. 20 of malignant fever one day before his wife, Elizabeth who died Feb. 21, 1791. They were buried on the same day by Rev. John Cosin Ogden.

. 1764 Feb 18 WILL of Mary Newell of Perth Amboy, Middlesc Co., widow, Int. Adm. Doctor James Newell of Upper Freehold, Monmouth (nearest relation). Fellowbondsman Wm. Burnet of Perth Amboy.
1764 Feb 18, Inventory: £25. 1. 16 made by James Brooks & Thos. Skinner, Jr.

. This Lawrence-Newell connection brings to me a bit of unrecorded history of great interest. In the year 1778 Major André came to Allentown bringing with him letters of introduction to Dr. James Newell from Mrs. John Lawrence of Burlington, [Mother-in-law, Martha Tallman Lawrence] & asked Dr. Newell to give medical service to André's brother who was ill. The brothers were hospitably received & cared for at Dr. Newell's house in Allentown, where they stayed for a day & a night; then getting word that the American troops were advancing rapidly in that direction they left very early in the morning in a carriage belonging to an invalid lady, a Mrs. Wykoff* of Philadelphia, which Major André borrowed on account of the extreme illness of his brother (whom Mrs. Newell thought too ill to be moved); this carriage Major André caused to be returned to its owner after he had reached South Amboy in safety. In the hurried departure at an hour before daylight, one of the spoons from Major André's campkit, which had been used as a medicine spoon for the invalid, was left on the mantel-shelf of the room which they occupied in my great-great-grandfather's house; this spoon bearing the Crest of the André family is in my possession.
Note1: Mrs. Wykoff* wrote an account of the attack on Philadelphia.
Ref: Those Paris Years, by Samuel N Watson, 1936.

. 1898 Nov 18 - Allentown's Earlier Newells
Several generations of successful physicians & also good politicians.
Speaking with an Upper Freehold gentleman the other day of the interest attaching to the recent list of former Governor Newell to his old hime, our attention was called to the fact that the governor was to the only Dr. Newell who had at one time or mother lived & practiced medicine in Allantown. A hundred years ago Dr. James Newell resided there & enjoyed a large practice, becoming in his profession.
His wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Elisha Lawrence who lived on the Chestnut Grove farm now owned by Harrison Hendrickson, near Imlaystown & died in 1792. Mr Lawrence's will mentions besides his daughter, Mrs Newell, to who he left considerable property, sons John & Elisha, & dau. Ann & Lucy. He mentions also as sons of Doctor & Mrs Neil, Elisha (to whom he makes a special bequest doubtless for his name), John & Robert. So there must have been Newells in evidence in the earlier as well as the later history of the old town founded by Nathan All, 1706.
The Newells, somehow, seem to have naturally taken to medicine & if not born doctors, they nevertheless, as a rule turned out to be prey good ones, as we are told "there wasn't a failure among them"Besides the John Wm A, shoes standing as a physician & surgeon was among the foremost in the state 40 years ago [c 1858], his brother Wm Dunham who practiced as Imlaystown & another brother Azariah who died recently in New Brunswick, where both accomplished physicians, 3 of a kind in one family. The governor's 2 sons also studied medicine, Adolphus dying before gradation & Wm A, Junior, after giving early promise of a successful career.
The governor himself is said have always regarded his calling as a physician the chicest business of his life, riding day &night when a member of congress & governor of the sate, attending the humble & the lowly as well as the highest in the land. Governors in those days didn't get $10,000 a year for going down to Trenton once or twice a week, as somebody has rather pithily remarked - doubtless having Dr Newell in mind - it required practice to eke out a comfortable living for a growing family on a salary of $1,500 a year. If we are not mistaken the governor's private secretary gets about twice that figure now for work mainly performed by an executive clerk, & which was then satisfactorily performed b Enoch borden, of the State Gazette for $300 per annum.
Ref: Freehold Transcript & the Monmouth Inquirer, Freehold, NJ.

. 1903 Dec 24 -About another Dr Newell, the late Dr Wm A Newell so widely known in our state recall another eminent physician & surgeon Newell once resided in our town over a century ago, in the old dwelling that stood on the property now occupied by the Baptist church & parsonage*. His wife was a dau. of Elisha Lawrence, who resided on what is now the Hendrickson farm near Imlayston. Dr James Newell received his medical education in Edinburg, Scotland. Dr Newell's son-in-law, Robert Montgomery who lived on the Eglinton estate near here, suffered conferrable loss on the passing of canton's army. An inventory was made by him of property destroyed & carried off, amounted to sever hundred pound. The front of the dwelling still bears the mark of a cannon ball which was fired from a British gun while the arm was encamped near there the night before the battle of Monmouth.
Ref: Allentown Messenger, NJ.

. The Presbyterian Church at Allentown stands on ground once owned by William Lawrence, For the sum of 5 shillings he conveyed to Robt Imlay & Tobias Polehmus, on 1744 Dec 15, 1 acres of land for the use of the Presbyterian congregation, On this the first edifice was erected in 1756.
Ref: Allentown Messenger, NJ, 1904 Jul 21.

For further research:
. WILL of John F Grandin, son of Philip Grandin, of Hunterdon Co. studied medicine with Dr. James Newell, of Allentown, whose daughter he married. She was a grand-daughter of Elisha Lawrence. Dr. Grandin was a surgeon of the navy during the Revolutionary War. He settled in Hampden, Hunterdon Co. where he had a very extensive practice. Died July 21 1811.
. NJ Index of WILL: James Newell, 6831-34M, B 34, Page 346, Granted 1793. - - -

Died:
- aged 66 years.

James married Elizabeth LAWRENCE, .vii on 14 Dec 1749 in Christ Church, Shrewsbury. Elizabeth (daughter of Elisha LAWRENCE, Jr., Esq., .2 and Elizabeth BROWN) was born on 22 Sep 1734 in Crosswick, Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; died on 21 Feb 1791 in Allentown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; was buried in Allentown Presbyterian Church Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Baptisms 1734 Sept 22 - Elizabeth, Daughter of Elisha & Elizabeth Lawrence, Crosswicks, Registered at Allentown.
Died of malignant fever one day after her husband & they were buried together.

. 1749 Dec 14 - Parish Register of Christ Church, Shrewsbury, NJ: James Newel & Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence married.

. 1781, the Monmouth County grand jury accused Elizabeth Newell of Freehold of sending "one calf" to Staten Island. Newell's case notwithstanding, indictments naming women were rare. ...Warrant to apprehend her was not issued until 29 Jan, 1783 by the Monmouth Co. Court of Quarter Sessions.
Ref: New Jersey in the American Revolution, by Barbara J Mitnick.

. 1788 Mar 13, Elisha Lawrence of Upper Freehold Twp., Monmouth Co., Gentlemen,
WILL: Daughter Elizabeth Newell, wife of Dr. James Newell, house & ground in Allentown where they live during their lives;
then to their eldest son Elisha Newell;
he paying his brothers John & Robert Newell £20 each.
daughter Elizabeth Newell £300

. [The house were Elizabeth Lawrence Newell lived is the: ]
The Presbyterian Church at Allentown stands on ground once owned by William Lawrence, For the sum of 5 shillings he conveyed to Robt Imlay & Tobias Polehmus, on 1744 Dec 15, 1 acres of land for the use of the Presbyterian congregation, On this the first edifice was erected in 1756.
Ref: Allentown Messenger, NJ, 1904 Jul 21.

Elizabeth is the daughter of Elisha Lawrence and had issue 15 children. No known descendants of that tribe now living. - - -

Birth:
Alt DOB 1728, Baptized 1734.

Died:
Resided /1788.

Notes:

Married:
Also NJ License, James Newell of Monmouth and Elizabeth Lawrence, 12 Dec. 1749 License N 43.

Notes:

. 1787 Dec 24, Allentown Academy is now opened for the reception of scholars where are taught the following: English, Grammar, ...Latin Greek, Composition & eloquence. on the public stage road between NY & Philadelphia, about 15 miles from NJ College. £6 per year. By order of the Trustees, Dec. 19th 1787, Elisha Lawrence, Clerk.
Verify this Elisha Lawrence.

. 1788 Mar 13, WILL of Elisha Lawrence of Upper Freehold Twp., Monmouth Co., Gentlemen:
Daughter Elizabeth Newell, wife of Dr. James Newell, house & ground in Allentown where they live during their lives;
then to their eldest son Elisha Newell;
he paying his brothers John & Robert Newell £20 each.
Son, John, of Burlington, negro woman Rose & negro boy Paddy.
Son Elisha homestead, called Chestnut Grove, 3260 acres, also all other personal; He making the following payments:
- son John, £975,
- daughter Elizabeth Newell £300,
- daughter Lucy Lewis, wife of Nathaniel Lewis of Philadelphia, £300,
- daughter Ann Keen, wife of Reynold Keen of Philadelphia, £465 Each,
- grandchildren: 2 silver spoons make E.E.L.,
Executors: Sons John & Elisha, neighbor Peter Covenhoven.
Witnesses: John Lawrence, Daniel Danser, Wm. Colwell
Proved Jul 26 1792. Ref: NJ Lib 34, p 323
xxdate Renunciation by John Lawrence & Peter Covenhoven.
Ref: NJ Calendar of Wills, File 6737-6738M. - - -

Birth:
Ref: His Monument

Died:
- in 90th year; Will 1788.3.13, Proved 1792.7.26.

Buried:
Red Valley, Monmouth Co., NJ, Plot 5.

Elisha married Elizabeth BROWN in 1727 in New Jersey. Elizabeth (daughter of Dr. John BROWN and Mrs. Elizabeth (John) BROWN) was born on 1 Oct 1709 in Leichestershire, England; died on 1 Apr 1772 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; was buried in Yellow Meeting House Graveyard, Cream Ridge, Monmouth Co. NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

* It was the Quakers, escaping persecution in England, who were the primary settlers of Burlington County, arriving in 1677 & 1678. The Quaker belief in the primacy of education (for boys & girls) led to the proliferation of early schools in Burlington County, resulting in a great number of preserved one-room school houses throughout the county.

. Between 1677 & 78 persecution in England lead to many Quakers emigrated to Burlington Co., & from there to Penn. Quakers built many schools for both girls & boys because they believed in education.

. 1897 J. Lawrence Boggs of Perth Amboy recorded the Yellow Meeting House monument: "Elizabeth Lawrence, Born in Leicestershire. October 1st, 1709, Died April 1st, 1772, aged 62 years & 6 months." - - -

Died:


Buried:
Aged 62 y 6m 0ld large horizontal stone. Red Valley.

Notes:

Married:
Alt date 1725

Notes:

. Elisha, son of William, commenced business as a merchant in the latter part of the 1700, at Cheesequakes, on the south side of the Raritan, but his store having been pillaged by the crew of a French privateer, he removed to Upper Freehold then a wilderness.

. 1688 May 12. Patent to Elisha LAWRENCE of Middletown, for two hammocks of land at Shoal Harbour, Monmouth Co., 20 acres, S. Upland, W. William Camptone, N. the sage meadow, S. E. grantee.

. Elisha Lawrence was one of the earliest & most prominent settlers of Monmouth county. He married Lucy Stout & died at Chestnut Grove, Upper Freehold, May 27, 1724. Reprinted 1916.

. 1764 Elisha Lawrence, Jur, West Jersey. Letter waiting in the Trenton post office.

. Richard Salter sold an additional 185 acres near Crosswicks to Elisha Lawrence for £50 on 19 Nov, 1717. Including housing buildings, edifices, structures, barnes, stables, orchards.

Ye Olde Yellow Meeting House Land Elisha Lawrence, Fourth Assembly 1708-9; Fifth Assembly 1709, Co. of Monmouth.
William & Elisha Lawrence, Seventh NJ Assembly 1716, County of Monmouth.
1721 - Elisha Lawrence was Representative to the Assembly.

* Summary: a long & fairly exciting tale of Middletown Proprietors' grievances, rebellion, swords fights, petition of complaint signed, Wm. Lawrence, & numerous others, delivered to the Governor; with a speedy retreat to a waiting ship, firing canons off as a farewell gesture.
"The following is a true copy of the record of this court, which made so much talk & excitement in New Jersey, & among the Proprietors in England, & which brought public matters to a conclusion so far as any further attempts to coerce & drive the people of Middletown township. March 25, 1701, Monmouth."

. They are here represented in a court record, as being guilty of rank rebellion for the mere purpose of enabling- a strange pirate named Moses Butterworth - to escape ... a certain pirate belonging to Kidd's crew - A drummer was sent into to the court as a diversion, the guards were overcome & the pirate drag out of the court to freedom. ... Governor Hamilton sends the petition to the William of Orange. Essentially, the Proprietors' lands were sold out under them by the Governor .
Ref: Early Dutch Settlers of Monmounth Co., NJ, By Geo. C Beekman, Freehold NJ.

. 1696 Jan 1 0 - At the publique Middletown meeting agreed the poor rate to £30. Persons chosed to make the sd. rate, Ben. Borden, Obediah Bowne, Elisha Lawrence & Will Lawrence Jr. Signed, Will Lawrence, Towne Clark.
. 1723 Jun 17 - Lawrence his brand mark for his horses is L on the near buttock. Entered by me, Elisha Lawrence, Towne Clerk.
Note: Elisha recorded many ear marks that day. -PJA

. 1722 April 14. WILL of Lawrence, Elisha, of Freehold Township, Monmouth Co., yeoman;
Wife Lucy.
Children: Elisha, John, Joseph, all three under age,
Elizabeth, wife of John Saltar,*
Sarah, wife of John Imlay,
Hannah, wife of Richard Saltar,
Rebeckah. Farm at the mouth of Buckhold Brook in Doctors Creek along James Coxes & Robert Burtnetts line. Personal Estate (bonds due by Capt. Richard Saltar & by John Saltar).
Executors the wife & son Elisha.
Witnesses Robert Imlay, Thomas Saltar, Alse Imlay.

. Codicil of March 15, 1723-4, makes another disposition of the land & calls daughter Hannah, wife of Richard Saltar.*
Witnesses Daniel Hendrick, Petter Imlay junior, Zebulon Cleayton, junior.
Proved May 27, 1724.
Ref: NJ Calendar of Wills, Lib. A, p. 293.

. 1724 May 2. Inventory of the personal Estate ( £775.8.4, incl. plate £30, a Bible, other books & 40 gamoas £7, 3 negroes £150, 2 white servants £21.3.4); made by Richard Saltar & Zebulon Cleayton. Endorsed: to be left at Jam Vanlletes in Allenstown.

. 1713 March 31st, The peace of Utrecht:
Having put an end to hostilities between Great Britain & France, & terminated a merciless war upon the American continent. Some leaven of the political spirit, which had been engendered during the administration of Gov. Cornbury, still worked, at times, among the people, & in the Assembly. Graham Mott, & Elisha Lawrence, merchants from Bergen, who had been of Cornbury's party, having entered on the minutes of council, reasons for voting against aiding the expedition to Canada, were severally expelled the House of which they had become members, ...was actually a ploy to delay passing certain measures & was meant to irritate the Governor.
Ref: History of NY.

. 1897 J. Lawrence Boggs of Perth Amboy recorded the Yellow Meeting House Monument:
"Here lieth the body of Elisha Lawrence who died April the 25th 1724, aged 58 years 2 months & 8 days."

Stone reads: By indulgence of the General's family, his companions in arms, erected this tribute of affection the 1st day of January, 1800 (Large horizontal stone.)
Ref: Historical Miscellany, Vol. 2, John Stillwell.

. The 4th child of Wm. Lawrence, Elisha, born in 1666, began business as a merchant near the end of the century at Cheesquakes, (now Mongan's Railroad Station) on the south side of Rarity.

The 3 Elisha's all were owners of the family homestead, Chestnut Grove. When the first Elisha Lawrence died, in 1724, the meeting house was the only public burial ground within 25 miles, a great distance in those days.
Ref: Three Men Named Elisha.
Buried at Chestnut Grove, Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey.

Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Birth:
1. Newtown, Long Isl., NY. 2. Middleborough, LI, NY.

Died:
Aged 58y 2m 8d [21 Jun 1665.] Heart engraved on black Monument reads 1724.

Buried:
Slate monument.

Elisha married Lucia LUCY STOUT on 12 Jan 1691 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Lucia (daughter of Richard STOUT, Jr. and Frances HEATH) was born in 1675 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; died on 27 May 1724 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Cousin of her sept-mother, Elizabeth Lawrence".

. 1698 Mar 10. Elisha Lawrence & wife Lucy of Middletown to Jeremiah Stillwell, late of Gravesend, LI, for the following lots in Middletown:
(1b) 120 a. of Horse Neck, E. Thomas Morfoot, w. at creek. n. unsurveyed, s. Neversinks.
(2) 3 a. meadow e., Thomas Morfoot, s.w. & n. unsurveyed, the whole 123 acres granted to Thomas Herbert by patent June 4, 1677, by him sold to Robt. Hamilton, by him to Wm. Lawrence, who conveyed it to present grantor.
(3) a lot on Hogpen Neck, bought of John Reid June 9, 1691. - - -

Birth:
ALT DOB 1665 Shrewsbury, Alt Name Lucy.

Died:
Alt Name: Lucy.

Notes:

. John Bowne, above named, left England in 1649, & arrived at Boston the same year. His first visit to Flushing, was on the 15th of June, 1651, in company with his brother-in-law, Edward Farrington.
He married Hannah, daughter of Robert Field, at Flushing, May 7th, 1656, & in 1661 built the house there, which we have just above noticed, & which has been occupied constantly by some one of his descendants.

His wife became intimate with some of the people called Quakers, who at that period, were obliged from necessity, to hold their meetings privately in the woods, & other remote places. She became attached to the society, & was received as a member amongst them. Her husband, mostly from motives of curiosity, attended their meetings, & was so powerfully struck with the beauty & simplicity of their worship, that he invited them to his house, soon after which he also became a member of their society; " not merely (as he observes,) from kindness & affection to his wife, but his judgment also was convinced of the principles they held forth for a little time his faith was put to the test, & he had to partake, in a large degree, of the sufferings to which others of his faith & profession were exposed; & his persecutions, imprisonment, banishment, & severe privations for the truth's sake, & the testimony of a good conscience, were such as most persons would shrink from, in this our day of ease & quiet enjoyment.

The said John Bowne, had a severe sentence passed against him, on the 14th of Sept., 1662, & the governor finally proceeded to such extremities, that the said Bowne was actually transported to Europe, to be tried for heresy, & his disregard of the orders & placards of the governor & council. He was patiently heard before a committee of the Investment? Company; who, finding him a discreet man & steadfast in his region, set him at liberty - with the following severe reprimand in the form of an epistle, directed to Governor Stuyvesant:

. 1663 Apr 6 - Amsterdam, [NY City]
"Sir: We perceive from your last letter, that you had exiled & transported hither a certain Quaker, named John Bowne. Although it is our anxious desire that similar & other sectarians may not be found among you, yet we doubt extremely the policy of adopting rigorous measures against them. In the youth of your existence, you ought rather to encourage than direct? the population of the colony.

"The consciences of men ought to be free & unshackled so long as they continue moderate, peaceable, offensive, & not hostile to the government. Such have been the maxims of prudence & toleration by which the magistrates of this city (Amsterdam) have been governed; & the consequences have been, that the oppressed & persecuted from every country, have found among us an asylum from distress. Follow in the same steps, & you will he blessed."

Mr. Bowne remained several years abroad, visiting many parts of Europe, & returned to America in the spring of 1665, his wife having died in London in the month of February preceding, & his father, Thomas Bowne, also, during his absence.

He of course found the country in the possession of the English, but calling upon the puissant Stuyvesant, now a private citizen, he expressed his regret for having used so much severity toward him & his fellow Quakers, whom he frankly admitted to be among the most valuable citizens.
Ref: Historical Genealogy Lawrence Family. Their first landing in this country AD 1635 to the present date JULY 4, 1858.

. 1715 Jan ye 12 - Then Obadiah Bowne Desired to have the Earmark Recorded for him which was formerly his Father John Brown - as followeth, viz; A Crop on the Off Ear & a Slitt In the Crop & Another In the fore side of the same Ear. Now Entred Per Me, Willm. Lawrence Junr., Town Clerk. Now Recorded to his Son John.

. 1737 May 8. WILL of John Brown, of Mansfleld, Burlington Co., Doctor;
Dau., Elizabeth Lawrence. Each grandchild now born 20 shillings & a silver spoon.
Wife, Elizabeth, sole executrix & to be guardian of grandson John, son of my son, John Brown, dec'd.
Witnesses: John Rockhill, Peter Imlay, Isaac DeCow, medius.
Proved Aug. 1, 1737. Lib. 4, p. 109. - - -

Birth:
Verify location.

John married Mrs. Elizabeth (John) BROWN. Mrs. was born est 1658; died on 5 Jun 1759 in Burlington County, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. 1754, June 5. WILL of Elizabeth Browne, of Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., widow of Dr. John Brown of Burlington Co:
Daughter, Elizabeth (wife of Elisha Lawrence), sole Executrix.
Grandchildren: John Browne
John Lawrence,
Elizabeth Lawrence (now Newell,)
Elisha Lawrence, Jr., Lucy Lawrence, Anne Lawrence.
Personal property, including a silver pint cup & silver spoons.
Witnesses: James Magee, Peter Imlay, Jr., & William Dunterfield.
Proved June 5, 1759. NJ Lib. 9, p. 219. - - -

Died:
WILL proved. (WILL written 1754 June 5)