Notes:

. ALICE PETTERSON BOGGS, born Jan 27, 1857, d. Perth Amboy May 10, 1914, after a lingering illness. She was one of the Daughters of the American Revolution & also a member of the Colonial Daughters of American.
Married twice: First 882, Jonathan Bruen Miller, of Newark, NJ, died Newton, NJ July 3, 1887, aged 29, buried Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, NJ. He was the son of E N Miller of Newark., He was a mathematician of unusual ability & possed a literary talent; was on the editorial staff of the New York Independent & later of the American Railroad Journal:
Children: Jonathan Bruen Miler died May 8, 1883, in infancy.
Robert Neilson Miller, Sept 23, 1862 - Dec 27, 1873 of bilious remittent fever; &
John Lawrence Miller, b Nov 16, 1865, married Christina Marie Newton.

. Alice Paterson Boggs Miller marred 2nd at St.Peter's Church, Perth Amboy to Charles Chauncey Hammann, City Surveyor of Perth Amboy, member of NJ Bar & Judge of the District Court. - - -

Died:
COD: A lingering illness.

Notes:

. JOHN LAWRENCE BOGGS, was born at New Brunswick, NJ, Jun 24 1812 & died at Perth Amboy, NJ May 29, 1893.
Baptized by Bishop Rev. Dr. Croes, of NJ, sponsors were Isaac Lawrence of NY & Mrs. John Lawrence of Trenton, NJ.
He was educated at Flushing Institute, Long Island, NY. President Lincoln appointed him Collector of customs for Perth Amboy, later in the Custom House at NY.
He was registrar for 30 years of the East Jersey Proprietors.

Married twice: First Jan 14, 1843 to Mary Lloyd VanDeursen, dau. of Wm. Van Deursen, MD of New Brunswick, NJ & Eleanor Hendrickson Van Deursen of Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ. She was born June 2, 1819 & died June 1 1842, buried in Willow Grove Cemetery, NB.

. Fragment for further research: a serial article by John C. Honeyman on the history of Zion, St. Paul & other early Lutheran churches in New Jersey.

'The report of the Board of Trustees to the Society made by the Secretary & was approved. The report of the Membership Committee was presented to its chairman, Mr. J. Lawrence Boggs. It was approved. Pages 84-85 & 121.
General Committee Mr. J Lawrence Boggs.

. Organized Mar 7, 1889. Annual meeting usually January 3 (Battle of Princeton), or at such other time as the Society at any annual meeting may designate. Officers elected January 3, 1914.
2d Vice-Pres., John Lawrence Boggs, 44 Spruce St Newark. - meeting usually January 3 (Battle of Princeton), or at such other time as the Society at any annual meeting may designate.

. Officers elected January 3, 1914.
President, John Leonard Merrill, 517 Park Ave. East, Orange
1st Vice-Pres., John Brewer Wight, 17 Prospect Terrace, Montclair
2d Vice-Pres., John Lawrence Boggs, 44 Spruce St., Newark.
Ref: National Year Book, the national Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1914.

. Fragment: Vol. 12 NJ Historical, Pub Oct. 1927 & Oct 1930
The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Boggs, was read & showed a balance of $2,042.76, It as approved as having reported { correct by the Auditing Committee. [ John or James L. Boggs? ]

. BOGGS, PAPERS, ca. 1750-1912.Approx. 2,000 items. Gift of J. Lawrence Boggs.
Legal documents, letters, receipts, & other documents of the Boggs family & some papers of the Morris family. Incomplete­ly organized. Included are letters of various people.
Ref: A guide to the manuscripts collection of the New Jersey Historical Society.

Recorded for further research:
. John Lawrence Boggs, Jr., from 1852-55 & 1860 & again 1900-18, St. Peter's Anglican Vestery Man, Perth Amboy. - - -

Died:


Buried:
Son of Robt & Mary Lawrence Boggs.

John married Cornelia Bell PATERSON on 25 Jul 1847 in New Jersey. Cornelia was born on 9 Feb 1820 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died on 12 Sep 1909 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in St. Peter's Anglican Church, Perth Amboy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Cornelia is the daughter of Jane Eliza Bell & Wm. Patterson.

Birth:


Buried:
Daughter of Wm. Bell & Jane Eliza Paterson & wife of John Lawrence Boggs.

Notes:

. Family papers may be found at NJ Historical Society. The collection consists of the papers of the Boggs family, as well as the allied Blauvelt, Kearny & Lawrence families. The materials range in date from 1737 to 1950, & include correspondence; composition notebooks; diaries; estate, financial & legal papers; genealogies; & musical scores.

. Robert Boggs 3 wives are:
1st. Cousin Mary Morris, daughter of Uncle Robt. Morris. T2 Boggs children. Married 28 May 1795.
2nd. Mary Lawrence, daughter of Hon. John Lawrence, of Burlington, NJ. married 7 Aug, 1802.*
3rd wife: Maria Eliza Brenton Stewart. Widow of Leslie Stewart of Halifax, NS. Married 17 Jun 1817. One Boggs child.

. Robert, eldest child of Dr. James & Mary Morris Boggs, was brought up together with his other brothers & sisters whom his father had left behind him in New Jersey, in the home of his uncle, Judge Morris, of New Brunswick, with whom he studied & practiced law, spending his life in that city where he was at one time clerk of the US district court. He died in New Brunswick, in 1831. He married (first) his cousin. Mary Morris, by whom he had one child, Robert, who married Jane Dunham, & had 3 children.
He married (second) Mary, the sister of James Lawrence, United States Navy, who commanded the frigate "Chesapeake" in her engagement with the "Shannon." She bore him 3 children:
1. Brenton, of the United States navy.
2. Mary, married J. S. Blauvelt, of New Brunswick.
3. Charles Stuart, referred to below. He married (third) Maria Brenton, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1780, died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1866. They had one child: Edward Brenton.
Ref: Genealogical & memorial history of the State of New Jersey, 1910.

. The children of Dr. James Boggs & Mary Morris 2 sons, Robert & James, remained in the United States, when the family removed to Nova Scotia. The American Branch of the Boggs Family.
ROBERT BOGGS was born at Indian Neck, Tinton Falls, near Eatontown, New Jersey, Nov. 13th, 1766, at 3 P. M., & died at New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 11th, 1831, after a lingering illness caused by tumor of the stomach. The Baptismal Register of Christ Church, Shrewsbury, N.J., has an entry for Dec. 14th, 1766, & indicates that the ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr. Cooke; that it was a private one; & that the sponsors were Robert McKean, Theodore Maurice, & Elizabeth Stogdell.
Robert was seventeen years of age at the time the family removed from New Jersey to Nova Scotia, & he chose to remain in the United States. He studied law in the office of his uncle, Judge Robert Morris, & practiced his profession in New Brunswick, N. J. He was admitted Attorney-at-law in 1789, a* Counsellor-at-law in 1794. He was Judge Advocate General of the NJ Militia, from 1794 to 1795. He was Clerk of the United States District Court from 1790 to 1815, & appointed Sergeant-at-law in 1816. He was elected a trustee of Rutgers College in 1800. An active & influential member of the Anglican Church, he was almost all his life connected with Christ Church, New Brunswick Co., [USA] holding office frequently. He was Clerk of the Convention; member of the Standing Committee; Deputy to the General Convention. He was Vestryman & Clerk of the Parish in 1793. He continued an active & prominent member of the vestry until his death. His remains were interred in Christ Churchyard, New Brunswick, where his tombstone bears this inscription: Born November 13th 1766. Died January 11th, 1831.
'This mortal shall put on immortality. For the trumpet shall sound & the dead shall be raised'."
Robert was one of the executors of the will of his uncle, Robert Morris, who died in June 1815, & it would seem from the correspondence that has survived the years, regarding this duty, that it was by no means a small task, extending, as it did, over several years, & entailing a vast amount of correspondence. The settlement of the 2 wills, that of Robert Hunter Morris, & that of his son, Robert Morris, loomed up as a business of prodigious importance & almost interminable work & worry for all the members of the family in the days of Robert Boggs & his contemporaries.
Robert Boggs was married 3 times. His first wife, whom he married on May 28th, 1795, was his cousin, Mary Morris, daughter of Judge Robert Morris. She was born at Newark, N. J., in Feb. 1775, & died at New Brunswick, N. J., June 24th, 1799, aged 25 years. She was interred in Christ Churchyard, New Brunswick.
Robert's second wife was Mary Lawrence, daughter of John Lawrence, Esq., of Burlington, N. J., & a
sister of Capt. James Lawrence, the heroic commander of the United States frigate "Chesapeake. … Mary Lawrence was born at Burlington, N. J., in 1777, & died at New Brunswick, N. J., Feb. 12th, 1815. She was married to Robert Boggs, August 7th, 1802.

. 1791 Apr 15, Tues. District Court of US, NJ District, By Order of Hon Robert Morris, Esquire, Judge of said Court. Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern the following goods & wares, fabric, buttons, china etc. sized as contraband by Jon Ross Esq. collect of customs for the port of Burlington. By Order of the Court, Robert Boggs, Clerk.
Ref: Brunswick Gazette, NJ.
. 1787 Wardens of Christ Church, New Brunswick Diocese, NJ, Robt. Boggs.

. 1799 Oct 24. Dr. Boggs wrote to his son Robert, who was in New Jersey, & in this letter says "we have just received accounts of Seringapatam being taken & Tippoo killed & a most complete victory obtained over him, so that the black Scoundrel will never disturb that quarter of the World any more."

. 1798 Dec 3rd, Thomas Boggs, writing from Halifax to his brother Robert in NJ, indicates that he he still living with his parents & has recently purchased a large house which they occupy & to which they invite their New Brunswick, NJ relatives for a visit.

. Stayed in NJ when his parents moved to Halifax, NS. He served in the US Navy in the Mexico & Civil Wars. In the Civil War he commanded at Varunan under Farragut's fleet in their entry to New Orleans.
Robert had studied law in the Rutgers College office of his uncle Robert Morris (who served with the Revolutionary troops) & practiced law in New Brunswick. Robert Boggs served as the Judge Advocate General of the New Jersey Militia from 1794-1795, then a clerk of the U.S. District Court from 1790-1815, & became a Rutgers trustee in 1800.

. Robert Boggs, studied law in the office of Uncle, US Judge, Robt. Morris; Attorney-at-law, 1789, Counsellor-at-law 1794, Judge Advocate General of NJ Militia, 1794-5 Clerk of US District Court 1790-115.
Sergeant-at-law in 1794. [His father-in-law, John Brown Lawrence had also held this position.]

. Unrecorded Estate Papers 2914-3142, Middlesex:
. Account of Maria E Boggs & Wm. Brenton Boggs & their disbursements of the Estate of said RM Boggs [Extracts from very orderly account of 15 pages!]
. 1831 Feb 24, Amount of Inventory, $30,330.68 [listing investments in banks & money owing to him]
. Amounts of Bonds & Montages not collected, Total $235.11
. Amount paid Mrs Boggs for supper of household out of income of Estate/per Will, $3,440.30.
Balance in accounts: $58,683.66. as of
. 1834 Mar 17, Signed, M E Boggs, Wm Brenton Boggs, Executors.
Surrogate Court Wit: Thos Hance, Jos Churney, To ford, Simons Maungy. [p452]
Ref: NJ Wills & Probate Records, 1739, Estate File 983, Robert Morris Boggs, p 441-460.

. 1790 Nov 17 - New Brunswick, on the 2nd instant the District Court of NJ was held in Burlington. Robert Boggs & Joseph Scudder, Esqrs. were admitted as attorneys of said Court.
Ref: NJ Journal.

. 1799 Oct 24th, Dr. Robt. Boggs wrote to his son Robert, who was in NJ, & in this letter tells about British battle at Tippoo.
In 1798 Dec 3rd, Thomas Boggs, writing from Halifax to his brother Robert in NJ, indicates that he he still living with his parents & has recently purchased a large house which they occupy & to which they invite their New Brunswick, NJ relatives for a visit.

. 1800 Dec 24 -WILL of Joseph Covehoven, Franklin Twp. Somerset: Wit. Robt. Boggs.
. 1812 Jan. - Ben. Tuttle of N. Brunswick, Middlesex Co. NJ. Wit: Robt. Boggs, Kearney Newell.

. 1805 Jan 31 - The stockholders of the Trenton & New Brunswick Turnpike Company met at Kingston, 622 shares being represented & elected: President John Baynard, Robert Boggs, Director.
. 1805 Jun 17, New Brunswick, Notice is hereby given that the Trento & NB Turnpike Company will received proposals for forming & graveling eh Turnpike Rd from Trenton to NB about 24 miles on Tuesday 23 July next. The road will be contracted for entire or in ports as may be agreed at the time; when its with & form, will be made known & drafts of contracts for the inspector of those disposed to contracts, By order of the Board, R Boggs, Clerk,

. 1811 Jan 7 - Clerk of the District of New Jersey, Trenton.
. 1812 Jun 15, District of NJ SS. Be it remember that on the 22 May in 36 year of independence of USA, Abj. Davis of the said District have deposit in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: An American Version of the Psalms of David, suited to the state of the Church in the present age of the world. by Abj. Davis, manger of the Gospel at Millville, NJ conformity with the act of the Congress of the US, "An act for the engagement? of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts & broke to the authors & proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.: L.S. Robert Boggs, Clk. of the District of N.J.
Ref: True American Newspaper.

. 1815 Aug 30 - 2nd Election of a Bishop of NJ, Annual Convention of Diocese of NJ, St. Michael's Church, Trenton. 18 parishes represented by lady deputies from Burlington, Jackson B French. Appointed to Standing Committee: Robert Boggs.
. 1815, 1818, Warden of St. Mary's Church,. Jackson B French.
.1819 Jul 13, 1824 Apr 19. St. Mary's Treasurers, Jackson B French.

1822 Sep 26 - Fire! On Saturday night last about midnight a barn & 2 barracks, all nearly filled with hay gain etc situated a short distance from this city belonging to Robert Boggs, Esq. were totally consumed by fire. In the barn were a pair of valuable horses & farming utensils of considerable value which were also burnt. The estimated loss by this fire we have not heard. The conflagration was undoubtedly the work of some vile incendiary.
Ref: New Brunswick Fredonia Newspaper, New Brunswick, NJ.

Supreme Court Case Files:
Numerous examples may be found, including:
. State of NJ - Boggs, Robt., Attorney for Defendant, Middlesex, Morris & Somerset 1813-14, Habeas corpus in Manumissions case #34942
Harris, Robt. - Boggs, Robt. & James, 1772
Boggs, Robt. -Talmage, Elias C., Sussex Co., 1818, Trespass & Ejectment #5423
Boggs, Mary - Kay, Isaac, Gloucester, 1796, Debt, #3802.

. 1815 August 30 - Robert Boggs, Esq. & a Isaac Lawrence were on a Standing Committee for St. Mary's Burlington Church & on Thurs. morning, 28 May, 1829, Robt. Boggs. Esq., Standing Committee.

. 1817 May 27 Tuesday - Wm. Penningaton, Esq. of Newark is appointed Clerk of District Court of US, NJ District, in place of Robert Boggs, Esq., resigned.
Ref: Centinel of Freedom, Newark Centinel Newspaper.

. 1822 Sep 26, Thurs. FIRE! Saturday night last, about midnight a barn & 2 barracks, all nearly filled with hay, grain, etc, situated a short distance from this city, belonging to Robert Boggs. Esq. were tollway consumed by fire. In the barn were a pair of valuable horses & farming utensils of considerable value, which were also burnt. The estimated loss by this fire we have not heart. The conflagration was undoubtedly the work of some vile incendiary.

. 1822 Oct 9 - $100 REWARD. At a late meeting of the Society for the protection of property, in this city, it was resolved that a reward of $100 be offered for the apprehension of the incendiary, who set on fire the barn of Robt. Riggs, Esq. on the 21st ult. At the same time a committee was appointed from he society to solicit the aid & cooperation of the Common Council of this city, endeavoring to ferret out & bring to condign punishment the perpetrator of that diabolical act - the the society adjourned to meet again at Joseph Runyon's on Sat. 12th inst. at 7 o'clock in the evening.

. 1822 Oct 4, In Common Council. Resolved that the Mayor be authorized to offer a reward of $100 for the discovery of the persons who set fire to the barn of Robert Boggs Esq. on the night of 21 Sep. last, to be paid on conviction of the offender/s. H C Guest, Clerk.

. 1822 Nov 5, Autumnal Cattle Show & Fair, at an early hour at Runyans hotel, President R Boggs Esq. from he head table announced to the society the premiums & delivered them to the successful candidates in neat silk purses made expressly for the purpose & presented by several ladies friendly to the Institution:
to Rt M Boggs. of NB, for the best Fat Cow, $6.
Ref: Fredonia Newspaper, New Brunswick, NJ.

. 1826 Nov 1, Fri. - 3 o'clock, the House met. Mr. McDowell presented the petition of Wm L Johnson & Robert Boggs, on behalf of the convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of NJ, praying the incorporation of the convention of said Church. - [no outcome mentioned.]
Ref: New Brunswick Fredonian Newspaper, NJ.

. 1830 North Brunswick Twp., Middlesex Co., New Jersey
Robert Boggs, men between 60 - 70 y. one;
Boys 5 years & under: one;
Women between 20 - 30 years: 2; Women between 50 - 60 years: one.

. 1831 Jan 11, Died on 11th inst. New Brunswick, Nj, 64 years, Robert Boggs, upwards of 40 years a highly respectable member of the Bar in that State.
Ref: NY Evening Post newspaper.

. 1897 relative, J. Lawrence Boggs of Perth Amboy recorded the Yellow Meeting House monument:
"In Memory of William Boggs who departed this life October 27, 1776, aged 36 years."

. "In memory of Jere Boggs, who departed this life October 12, 1776 aged 4 years."
Ref: "Notes on Lawrence of Hackensack" New York Genealogical & Biographical Record. Vol.XXVIII., p.170.


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

Part Two Newspaper Article

. 1807 Jan 21 - To Robert Boggs, Esq. The editors of this paper a few weeks since, published a hand bill said to be signed, by you & five other gentlemen of your city, as a Committee, appointed to address the electors of your county, previous to the lat election: I have waited with some hope of seeing you come forward & publicly deny your agency in that handbill: for I cannot conceive how a man in your station - an officer one of the US courts, and as such, possessed of the means of correct information on the subject of your address - would lend his signature to give currency to a catalogue of tales that have been hackneyed so long and refused so offend, as those on which you have ventured your reputation, as a man of veracity. And this address is made to you, in preference of your colleagues only as you are an officer of the government you have thought fit to traduce.
Every gov. expects support for every member that a composes it; but should it pursue a system evidently inimical to the interest of the governed, the virtuous ember will certainly preset this duty paramount, which he owes his country & denounce the corruptor vicious part of it. His virtue will also to be consistent, compel him to decline all cooperation in the administration of the gov. he hold it his duty to denounced, and all the emoluments too, annexed to his part of it.
How Mr. Boggs, will you conduct square with this rule? You have done you at most to calumniate, even beyond the verge of the circle of your influence the gov. that feuds you: you have put your name to a general libel on it, without adducing one singe solitary evidence to support this libel. And yet you receive the wages of the gov. you have libeled Unhappy, infatuated X! That animal is but a type of thee, that while he greedily gnaws his bone, snaps at the hand that reaches at! If our gov. is so wretched, why have any thing to do in it. Withdraw your Herculean shoulder from the wheel and let it sink into the more of contemptibility!
Your committee has bravely constructed a Socratic battery? against the administration of our union & state gov; and annoy them severely with a folly of insidious questions. You seem deeply read in this kind of argument - but how happened your Socratic wisdom totally to overlook the obligation you were under the finding some mode of argument to prove the truth of the assertions on which you questions are predicated? You as a lawyer, would not admit your adversary to beg the question. Your committee is a set of sturdy beggars who have begged nine in a breath! But owing to jerry? perhaps, you never thought of proving one of them. Now sir, your queries may all be answered, as far as they have any specific meaning attached to them where they have not have or may follow you into the wide field of conjecture and if the answers are forward for us, we'll direct you to where you may find them already done, in a manner that forbids every idea of cavil or doubt. This will be undertaken as leisure and convenience will admit. I am YOUR FRIEND.
Ref: True American Newspaper, Trenton, NJ. published 1805 Feb 4.

. 1807 Feb 16 & cont. Feb 23rd - for the True American To Robert Boggs, Esq.,
The crisis, we think is drawing near when the American people will no long believe that the provisions of a constitution they hold hear can be best carried into effect by its bitterest enemies.
Question 1. Can the American people always believe that he spirit of the '76 exclusively inspires foreigners who have emigrated either since '83 or mushroom patriots, who have sprung up since '89?
Ref. True American Newspaper, Trenton, NJ. Extracted long article, appears to be the questions by Robt. Boggs. -

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

Birth:
b. at 3 P.M. - in Indian Neck, Tinton Falls, near Eatontown, New Jersey.

Died:
COD: lingering illness caused by tumour of the stomach.

Buried:
Burlington, NJ. The mortal shall put on immortality. For the trumpet shall sound & the dead shall be raised.

Robert married Mary LAWRENCE, .vi on 7 Aug 1802. Mary (daughter of John Brown LAWRENCE, Esq., U.E. and Martha TALLMAN) was born in Nov 1776 in Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey; died on 12 Feb 1815 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in Christ Church Episcopal Churchyard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary is the daughter of Hon. John Lawrence, Mayor of Burlington, N. J.
Mary Lawrence married Robt. Morris Boggs.

Birth date: At the midmorning on Dec. 11, 1776, the first group of nonlocal fighting men, a party of 60 rebel Pennsylvanians, retreated through Burlington. Commodore Seymour fired on the entrenched Hessians (for British side). John Lawrence & other leading men when to ensure "the safety of the town" by meeting with the troops who returned the firing on the mayor. We made our escapes & were under the necessity of taking Refuge among the King's troops, & as the design of taking post at Burlington was soon after given up, I have been obliged to leave my wife & three children (the youngest not five weeks old, = Nov 1776) & to ramble as a Refugee, God knows when to return. "

. Brothers Capt. James Lawrence, naval hero "don't give up the ship.
& Dr. John Brown Lawrence, Jr. one of the first American born doctors.

Robert & Mary (Lawrence) Boggs had issue:
. LUCY LAWRENCE Boggs, b. 1801; d. 1813.
. JOHN LAWRENCE Boggs b. May 10th, 1S03; d. Sept. 22nd, 1S04, after 7 weeks' illness.
. JAMES BOGGS, b. Aug. 2Sth, 1804: d. Sept. 14th, 1805, at Long Branch, N. J., after 3 months' illness. He was buried at New Brunswick, N. J.
. JAMES LAWRENCE Boggs, b. Jan. 18th, 1806; d. July 28th, 1828. Was a graduate of Princeton.

. MARY REBECCA Boggs, b. April 4th, xx d. March 7th, 1885, at New Brunswick, N. J. She attended the school for young ladies, conducted by Miss Frances Brenton, in Harlem, N. Y. She was married May 9th, 1831, at New Brunswick, N. J. to John Scott Blauvelt, of New Brunswick, N. J., who died July 30th, 1859, aged 54 years. Mary Rebecca (Boggs) & John Scott Blauvelt had issue:
Robert Boggs Blauvelt, b. Feb. 13th, 1832; d. in NY, Feb. 2nd, 1911, in his 79th year; m at. Elizabeth, N. J., by Rev. Stevens Parker, Feb. 12th, 1874, to Anne Johnstone Fleming, daughter of Gilbert R. Fleming, of Elizabeth. Mr. Blauvelt was a Volunteer in the Civil War, serving with the Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. Y., & later with another NY regiment. He was also employed as a clerk in the War Department at Washington. For many years he was an insurance broker in NY City. He was a resident of New Brunswick,
NJ., a man highly respected in the community, of whom it was said: "He walked uprightly, worked righteousness, & spoke the truth in his heart."
James Lawrence Blauvelt, b. Feb. 1st, 1S34; d. at
New Brunswick, X. J., June 20th, 1907, in his 74th year. He was a man of warm & tender heart & much given to philanthropic effort. A true friend of those in need, his death was lamented by a wide circle of friends & acquaintances & those in whom he had interested himself. Like his brother, he served in the Civil War, but in the navy. He was with his uncle, Charles Stuart Boggs, in the naval engagement at New Orleans.
Mary Lawrence Blauvelt, b. Jan. 12th, 1S36; d. Aug. 27th, 1851, in her 15th year.
Jane Mitchell Blauvelt, b. Dec. 9th, 1837.
Edward Blauvelt, b. Aug. 9th, 1841; d. Sept. 20th, 1841.
Lawrence Kearny Blauvelt, b. Nov. 27th, 1842; d. Aug. 20th, 1864 in his 22nd year.
Frances Brenton Blauvelt, b. May 17th, 1846; d. at New Brunswick; N. J., April 27th, 1909

. WILLIAM BRENTON Boggs, b. July 2nd, 1809; m. Eleanor Carter.
. CHARLES STUART Boggs, b. Jan. 28th, 1811; m. 1st, Sophia Dore; 2nd, Eugenie (Molt) Bull.
. JOHN LAWRENCE Boggs, b. June 24th, 1812; m. 1st, Mary Lloyd Van Deurscn; 2nd, Cornelia Bell Paterson.
Ref: The genealogical record of the Boggs family, W E Boggs, 1916, Halifax, NS.

. Series1, Box1 Lawrence Family Correspondence/Misc. documents 1737-1816 &
. Box 13, Lawrence-Boggs estate related correspondence 1904-1939.

Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg, Thank you. - - -

Birth:
'not 5 weeks old' c Dec 1776

Died:


Buried:

Notes:

Part One: Biography1:
. James, a native of Delaware, & is the son of Ezekiel Boggs, born Ireland & Rebecca Baird, of Strabane, Co. Tyrone, Ireland. The Boggs family North American genealogy begins with Ezekiel Boggs, a lawyer who emigrated from the north of Ireland in the early 1700s, originally settling in Delaware. Ezekiel & his wife Elizabeth had 2 children, Rebecca & James.

(I) Ezekiel Boggs, founder of the family under consideration, came from Ireland & settled in Delaware, where he left behind him one son James, who is referred to below, & one daughter, Rebecca, who married a Mr. Rish, of Philadelphia.

(II ) James, son of Ezekiel Boggs, was born January 22, 1740, but whether in this country or in Ireland is uncertain. Coming from Delaware to Philadelphia, he studied medicine, & then settled in Shrewsbury, Monmouth county. New Jersey, where he remained until the breaking out of the revolution when he joined the British army as a surgeon, & continued with it until the close of the war, when he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he lived until his death at a very advanced age. He was highly esteemed as a physician, & manifested great interest in the promotion of the science of medicine. He became a member of the Medical Society of New Jersey the year after its organization & was an influential member until the breaking out of the war. His manners were pleasant & gentlemanly & he took great delight in his old age in relating incidents & adventures which occurred in his personal history, more particularly when the British were in possession of New York & his family living for the time near Perth Amboy, whom he could only visit by stealth.
Dr. James Boggs married Mary, daughter of Robert Hunter Morris, of New Jersey, & left a large family behind him, many of his descendants being now found in Halifax, Prince Edward Island, & the provinces of Lower Canada. He left, however, 5 children, 3 sons & 2 daughters in this country, from whom have come the New Jersey branch of the family. Among their children were: 1. Robert. 2. James, who went into business in New York City, where he became the senior member of the old firm of Boggs, Thompson & Company; his children were: Mary, married a Mr. Ray; Julia, married Lewis Livingston. 3. A son who died young in Wilmington, Delaware.
Ref: Genealogical & Memorial history of the State of New Jersey, 1910.

. Dr. James Boggs, Surgeon, NJ Volunteers, friend of Lieut. Col. Elisha Lawrence of Monmouth;
June 1770 - Vestry man, Anglican Christ Church.
2 Feb 1774 - Signed petition opposing slave Manumission.
3 Mar 1779 - Estate inquisitor for forfeiture, estate confiscated.

. New Jersey Volunteers, 2nd Battalion Surgeon's Mate: James Bogg.
James Boggs was Surgeon's mate of the 2nd Battalion during the first 2 years of the war. He was a Pennsylvanian by birth & residence. He continued after the war as a surgeon of the British Army in Canada, was made surgeon of the garrison at Halifax. Nov. 22nd 1798 was retired on half-pay in 1814, & died in Halifax in 832, 91 years of age.
Ref: NJ Volunteers Loyalist, in the Revolutionary War, by Wm. S Stryker.

James was a doctor & a loyalist who narrowly escaped capture by the Revolutionary forces, fleeing to Sandy Hook where he was taken aboard the Swan, a British sloop-of-war. He then worked as a surgeon in New York, while his family remained in Shrewsbury, where they were able to remain due to Mary's connections to the rebel army through her brother Robert. James surreptitiously visited his family throughout the remainder of the war, but was eventually forced to move with his wife & most of their children to Nova Scotia, thus forming the Canadian branch of the family.

Boggs, James, Lyons, James & Lockyer, Henry
Petition to Kempt: Petitioners are merchants of Halifax who have taken over the affairs of the first of Benton & Bulger, Auctioneers & traders. William E. Benton & Richard Bulger held a mortgage on a lot at Leavers Lake for which Adam Baker received a crown lease in 1814. Adam Baker was a trader, & became indebted to Benton & Bulger. No part of the debt was ever paid. Now this firm is unable to pay their creditors, & the petitioners have accepted the assignment. Adam Baker is dead, & no knowledge of his widow, Mary Baker, or of his children, can be found. Petitioners ask a grant. Copy of mortgage; Copy of lease: Note: In consequence of late land, regulations His Excellency cannot take this petition into consideration. Land Petition 1828 Cape Breton Isl., Nova Scotia.

. Property Confiscations Monmouth County - 1 Jun, 1787, JAMES BOGGS, property in Monmouth was confiscated by the New Jersey State.
Ref: Great Britain, Public Record Office, Audit Office, Class 12, Volume 85, folios 43-46.

. James Boggs, Surgeon's Mate in the general hospital an NY from 1777 until 1783 he removed to Nova Scotia. He was appointed Surgeon to the Garrison at Halifax & later to the household of HR Edward, Duke of Kent, the father of the late Queen Victoria, when he was Commander-in-Chief of HM Forex in Nova Scotia. In June 1810 he was retired from active service.
James Boggs was married Nov 24, 1765 by Rev. Mr. Ogilvie of NY, to Mary Morris, daughter of Robt. H Morris, Chief Justice of NJ. She was born in NJ Apr 5, 1746 & died at her home in Halifax NS 21 Feb 1831.

. JAMES BOGGS was surgeon's mate of the Second Battalion during the first two years of the war. He was a Pennsylvanian by birth & residence. He continued after the war as surgeon of the British army in Canada, was made surgeon of the garrison at Halifax, November 22d, 1798, was retired on half-pay in 1814, & died in Halifax in 1832, 91 years of age.

. 1780 Mar 10 - Public note is hereby given to all persons who have in their custody or power, any goods or chattels, bonds, bills, mortgages. notes account books or instruments of writing; or who are indebted the following fugitives & offenders: [a multitude of names & Dr. James Boggs.
Notice is hereby given to any persons having any claim upon the estates of the above persons, to exhibit her respective croutons to any two Jus of county Court, who will attend at Monmouth Courthouse on Monday, 1st May to received & adjust the said accounts.
Signed, Samuel Forman, Joseph Lawrence, Kenneth Jankinson, Jacob Wikoff, Commissioners.

. 1784 March 10th. Claims & Memorials, Memorial of James Boggs of New Jersey
To the Commissioners appointed by Act of Parliament to enquire into the Losses & services of the American Loyalists.
The Memorial of Doctor James BOGGS, late of Shrewsbury, Monmouth County in the Province of New Jersey, Sheweth, That your Memorialist was early & steadily attached to his Majesty's Person & the British Government, & that he uniformly opposed the measures of the American Congress. That He joined the British Army in New Jersey in 1776.
That in 1777 your Memorialist was attainted by a Law of the State of New Jersey & his property an appraisement of which is herewith presented, was confiscated & sold - & applied to the use of the state.
That by the Unfortunate Issue of the American War, Your Memorialist has lost his all. That he has a wife & a very large Family of Children to provide for. That he is reduced to great distress. Therefore prays that you will take his case into consideration, that under your Report he may be enabled to receive such aid & relief as his Losses & Services may be found to deserve.
James BOGGS
by his Atty., William TAYLOR, Castle street, Oxford Market. No. 5, March 10th 1784, Castle Street, Oxford Market No. 5.

. JOHN WARDELL [a Commissioner on at the Claims & Loss of Am. Loyalist] & REVARD KEARNEY appeared & sworn, before David Mathews, Esq., Mayor of New York City: James Boggs was the proprietor of a Farm in Shrewsbury Twp., NJ & they are well acquainted with the farm, valued £1000 NY Currency when Dr James Boggs let it, confiscated by NJ State & sold by reason of J Boggs join the Kings Army. Signed, Ravard Kearny, D. Mathaews, May, 20 Aug, 1783.

. LT. COL. ELISHA LAWRENCE, late of Monmouth County, New Jersey, sworn:
Knew the claimant in America, & as far as he could Judge he acted as a loyal subject & joined the British army in Dec 1776. He know his farm in Shrewsbury township. It was tolerably good, & about half cleared. Lands in that neighborhood sold for £8 or £9 Y.Y. currency per crd. The claimant practiced Phisick, & had the first business in the township.

. LAWRENCE HARTSHORN affirms: Says he know Dr. Boggs at Shrewsbury. He as a very loyal man, & uniformly so. Knew his farm. Thinks that it was worth £1,000 NY currency, with the house & improvements on it. Dr. Boggs had all the practice of the town. Thinks he might clear £150 currency per annum by his profession. Has been told that the stock, etc. has been all taken from the family.

. PERSONAL PROPERTY CLAIMS: Wagon, sulky chaise, 3 horses, 3 cattle, Plough & Harrow, 3 feather Beds, bedstead & bedding, 2 dining tables, a tea table & dressing table, a bureau, 8 charges, Kitchen furniture, Books, sheets & table linen, totaling £189.
Physician & surgeon series, there was no practitioners within 7 miles. £200 NY currency.
Ref: Claims & Losses of American Loyalist, Great Britain, Public Record Office, Audit Office, Class 13, Volume 17, folio 99.
XRef: Claims & Losses continues with his wife, Mary Morris.

James Boggs, Certificate #954, NY, Property claim £562.10, Sum Originally allowed: £530; Total sum payable under Act of Parliament £530; Sum already received, £159, Balance £371; Claim for loss of Incomer per year £112: Pension Genl. Hospital Nova Scotia £136.17.6.

. 1784 March 3rd, Port Matoun, Nova Scotia [ Near Liverpool, NS] [Extracted Version - PJA].
Some persons who have just come from Shelburn or Port Roseway, through the country, bring accounts of schooner being arrived from NY tho she left it a long time ago. The vessel left this place about middle of Nov. last by which I wrote my first letter to my dearest Molly from this place & by her I flatter myself with the happiness of hearing from you & my ever dear children who it must be of an old date, judge how very great my patience as the last most welcome favor from you was 13 NOV., which came by the [May' Fleet & have not rec. a line since 10 Jan. Tho L. Hartshorn of Halifax has assured me me to send my letters as soon as possible, I am in perfect health & have not had an hour of sickness since our most painful parting. The whole month of December was very moderate. The whole of January also exceedingly mild except the 11th & 12 were very cold & we had snow 4 inches deed. February was moderate, except 16th to 27 were very cold, but more more so than I have experience often in NY.
My habitation is small for so large a family, yet comfortable. Urge your holding yourself in readiness the beginning of April for any good opportune that may present Col. Molleson to be at N. York to bring horses.
Some good friends or your good brother to interest himself to find out what vessels are coming to Port Roseway or Halifax this Sprint. There will be several to hire a good cabin, sufficient to accommodate the family, in a good safe vessel of not less than 80 or 100 burthen, with proper berths fits up & conveniences & room enough reserved in the hold for whatever you may bring wit you. This will be expensive. I will take care that you have friends to pay you every attention & civility. Bring also hams & smoked beef, dried tongues, ax handles, good rum, even 1 Bible if you could & some wine, cooper's ware, 8 or 10 rush bottomed chairs, half dozen camp stools., a good supply of Beef & Mutton, excellent cod & herring.
Oh my Love how my heart aching in this long & tedious separation, but 2 months more will gives us a happy meeting. Signed, JAMES BOGGS.

. 1786, May 8, Nova Scotia Tax. His (?) statements as to value of property were corroborated by Dr. James Boggs & Wm. Drake. Fragment reference. Jersey, has in his possession a letter written on Jan 29 1762, from Strabane, Ireland, by one Wm. Baird to James Boggs, son of Ezekiel, Wm. Baird of man of 87 years, addresses himself as your most friendly Uncle.

. 1798 Jul 10 We have been favored with the following very handsome subscriptions, of the Regiments & Departments, under the command of Lieut. Gen. His Royal Highness Prince Edward, £300,
James Boggs, Garrison Surgeon, £5.5/
Ref: Royal Gazette & Nova Scotia Advertiser, Halifax, published in Report on Canadian Archives - 1940

. 1819 May 9, Halifax. WILL of DR. JAMES BOGGS;
James Boggs of Halifax, physician, to my affectionate wife Mary Boggs all my Estate Real & Personal, during her life,
son Charles Bogg £750;
dau. Rebecca, interest of £500, the remainder of my table & tea service;
dau. Mary Tremain £500
niece Rebecca Bond of Philadelphia, $200;
son Robert Boggs, one large & 2 smaller silver salvers, after his decade, to his eldest son Robert Morris Boggs;
son Thomas, one sett of silver castors;
son Charles Boggs, one dozen silver table spoons;
son James Boggs, £100 to be expelled in the purchase of a piece of plate;
Robert Morris Boggs the portrait of Robert Morris Esquire;
The residue of my seat after the decease of my wife, to children, Thomas & Charles Boggs & Mary Tremain to be equally divided amongst them.
Executors: Thomas & Charles Boggs;
Signed, James Boggs,
Wit: Hartshorne, Jr, Wm. Neqron?, Will M Deblois,
Will proved 1830, Aug 1830, Lawrence Hartshorn.

. February 21st, 1831, in her 85th year. She was buried by the side of her husband in old'St. Paul's Cemetery. Dr. Boggs & his wife & family were members of the Church of England, & for" many years they were members of the congregation of St". Paul's in Halifax. For some years before his death Dr. Boggs had to a very large extent, lost the use of his faculties. His son Thomas, writing to the eldest son Robert, October 10th, 1S25, says "you will receive comfort from knowing that our excellent mother continues as clear & bright almost as ever - if anything could raise her in our love & respect it would be the cheerfulness she supports under the very many heavy trials father's loss of memory imposes upon her." Richard Tremaine, a son-in-law of Dr. Boggs, writing, March 8th, 1826, to Robert Boggs, his brother-in-law, says "Dr. B. seldom goes out & has no pleasure when he does - he requires some one with him & returns to his home as tho' he was a stranger to it. We ought to be very thankful that our good mother retains her faculties as she does, altho' she has enough to wear her out & yet I should not be surprised if both remain with us even for years to come."
Ref: The genealogical record of the Boggs family, W E Boggs, 1916, Halifax, NS.

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

Part Two:

. The claimant enjoys half pay as Capt. in the South Carolina Volunteers, Class 2nd. Confiscation proved.
5. Evidence in the case of Dr. JAS. BOGGS, late of Monmouth County, New Jersey. Claimant sworn. Memorial read.
He is a native of Delaware County. At the commencement 7th December, of the trouble he resided at Shrewsbury, in New Jersey, & says that he uniformly supported the Brit. Govt. He ever opposed the choosing of committees, & says he never took an oath or carried arms with the Americans. A number of Loyalists were taken up in Shrewsbury in Nov. 1776. The dread of being taken up made him fly to Sandy Hook, where he got aboard the Swan sloop of war.
He has continued under the protection of the British troops ever since. He acted as mate in the Gen. Hospital at New York from July 1777, until Sept., 1783. When he was appointed by Sir Guy Carleton Assist. Surgeon on the Staff. His pay in both situations has been 7s. 6d. per diem. (is).
Property: 111 acres in the township of Shrewsbury. Produces Appointment, Copy of a Deed of Bargain & Sale, whereby Stoffel Loggan xx."
Conveys to the claimant & his heirs a tract of land as above in Trenton manor in consideration of £777 N. York currency, bearing"'xx date 25th Mar 1773 The original Deed produced. The land was very good, part of it, about 60 acres cleared, with the a copy When he bought it he made very considerable improvements, examined which cost him about £200 N. Y. currency. Thinks it was well worth £1,000 N. York currency', but he cannot say it would have sold for so much if he had not purchased it when he did. Another person would have given the same price for it. He knows this property is sold under confiscation. Is required to produce copys of the records of sale under confiscation. It is in the possession of Moses Sheppard.
Personal property: Says when his claim was sent to England it was believed in New York that the lands only would be attended to as claims. Requests a few days to arrange the remaining part of his claim.

. LT. COL. ELISHA LAWRENCE, late of Monmouth County, New Jersey, sworn:
Knew the claimant in America, & as far as he could judge be acted as a loyal subject, & joined the British army in Decem. 1776. He knew his farm in Shrewsbury township. It was tolerably good, & about half cleared. Lands in that neighborhood sold for £8 or £9 N. Y. currency per acre.The claimant practiced Physician, & had the first business in the township.

. LAWRENCE HARTSHORN, affirmed:
Says he knew Dr. Boggs at Shrewsbury. He was a very loyal man, & uniformly so. Knew his farm. Thinks that it was worth £1,000 N. York currency, with the house & improvements on it.
Dr. Boggs had all the practice of the town. Thinks he might clear £150 currency per an. by his profession. Has been told that the stock, etc., has been all taken from the family.

. 1785 Dec 12. Further evidence in the case of DR. JAS. BOGGS.
Claimant sworn: Produces an acct. of different articles of personal property, which were sold under confiscation. Mrs. Boggs was present when the whole was sold: 1777.
Waggon, £10; chaise, £10; & sulky, £12 £32.0.0
3 horses 48.0.0
5 horned cattle, old & young 13.0.0
Plough & harrow ' 2.10.0
3 feather beds, & bedstead, & bedding 18.0.0
2 dining tables 4.0.0
A tea table & dressing table 2.10.0
(is). A bureau 8.0.0
Chairs, 8 16.0.0
Kitchen furniture 5.0.0
Shop furniture, medicines, etc. 30.0.0
Books 6.0.0
Sheets & table linen 4.0.0
Amounting to N. York currency £189.0.0
Since to the value 1.0.0
£190.0.0
He practiced as physician & surgeon to a very considerable extent. There was no practitioner of note within 7 miles of the place.
Ref: Commission for Claims of Loyal losses. St. Johns, NB. - - -

Buried:
Recumbant grey stone monument with tombstone on top.

James married Mary MORRIS, .i on 24 Nov 1765 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Mary was born on 5 Apr 1746 in Monmouth County, New Jersey; died on 21 Feb 1831 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary Boggs, Shrewsbury, household head.

. Mary Morris, (1746-1831) the daughter of Robert Hunter Morris, the Chief Justice of New Jersey & Governor of Pennsylvania, & sister of Judge Robert Morris, (d. 1815) who taught law at Rutgers College.

. Mary Morris Boggs children are Robert, Samuel, Charles, Thomas, James Jr., Rebecca & Elizabeth Boggs. Robert Boggs, (1766-1831) & James Boggs remained in New Jersey.
Ref: NJ Historical Society, Newark, NJ.

. Further evidence in the case of Dr. Jas. Boggs.
Claimant sworn: roduces an acct. of different articles of personal property, which were sold under confiscation. Mrs. Boggs was present when the whole was sold:
1777: Waggon £10; chaise £10; sulky £13m £32; 3 horses £48, 5 horned cattle old & young £13;
Plough & harrow £2.10.0; 3 feather beds, bedstead & bedding £18;
£2.10.0; a bureau £8; 8 Chairs £16;
Kitchen furniture £5; shop furniture, medicines etc. £30, Books £6; Sheets & table linen £4.
Amounting to N. York currency £189, since to the value £1. £190.
He practiced as physician & surgeon to a very considerable exert. There was no practitioner of note with 7 miles of the place. He estimated his professional gains at £200 N.Y. currency.

. MARY BOGGS, wife of the claimant, sworn:
She remained behind her husband at Shrewsbury, & recollects all the articles contained in the list delivered in, were all sold by the Committee of Sequestration. Thinks they are all charged under their real value. 2 of the houses were valuable.
Decision in the case of Dr. Jas. Boggs: The claimant is a meritorious Loyalist. He lost a farm in Shrewsbury, 111 acres, Valued at £430.0.0 str.
Personal property 100.0.0 (is) Profession 100.0.0 per acre.
Ref: Commission for Loyalist Claims, Saint John, New Brunswick.

. 1770 Oct 7, Shrewsbury, to Robert Morris
Dear Brother, You will doubtless be surprised at receipt of a line from me & I daresay can't devine the case that sets my pen in motion after remaining so long in a lethargic state. You must known I have taken it most unaccountably in my hand to long for a gown made out of a certain figured silk suite of clothes of your fathers, that he had made at Paris, now dear brother, if you have not allowed these cloths for your own wearing & have otherwise no particular object, I should esteem it a favor if you would take the earliest opportunity of sending them down to me. We have been expecting you down sometimes 7 & hope you intend t take up your winter quarters with us, you know how very agreeable it would be to Mr. Boggs. Signed, Sister Mary Boggs.

. 1777, Oct 22, I received with pleasure my dear brother favor, but was sorry to find you was unwell -as have since heard you are prodding at Morris court presume you have recovered your health. Nothing new here but what the daily transgression . Returned in safely from the actions at Philadelphia suppose you have heard. I much obliged to you the pains you have taken to supply me with butter. Have sent your message to Mrs. Leonard but there has not been time since to git an answer, Truly affectionate sister, Mary Boggs.

. 1780, May 24 - I just love received my dear brothers favor of 13th Instant. I removed to Black Point the 27 April, am to pay Mr. Hartshore £25 for the house & land that Mrsch occupied which is 20 Acres. We could not procure our own horse again but have got a small mare. I am sorry you have so troublesome a complaint as sore eyes you should not let business prevent your taking proper care of your own health. i am sincerely sorry for Mr. G. Morris should he recover he well need ll this good sense & philosophy to bear such a misfortune as the loss of a limb & at his time of life too.,. Your fiends here are all will, my little ones grown friendly excuse the mother MISS KEARNY is with me. Signed, Mary Boggs.

. 1793 Sep 30 Halifax, My Dear Brother, Now more than a year since I sent my youngest son to your care & direction since which we have never had a single line from you. ...Believe me my brother we have never or can forget you. Beck was not so happy as to meet your approbation & read gives me sufficient regret., Signed, sister Mary Boggs.

. 1807, June 13, Halifax. After so many ears of silence the hand writing of a sister will not be recommend, - her heart tho ever grateful, but my dear & excellent brother has evert continued his acts of kindness to me & mine. Thank yo for the late prints in the barrel & box both of which we have safe & in good order. If I may judge by the excellent likeness you have favored with me, - time has laid a more lenient hand on you than myself, you looks are the same as you wore 3 & 20 years ago. Robert's last letter gave us that both your health & looks were of late much improved. I am grieved to find that his poor fellow are quite the contrary, but hope there is no cause for serious alarm, if he will only quit the ODIOUS HABIT OF SMOKING. Thomas & Charles have each excellent wives & healthy fine children. - Betsy is a pattern of industry, serving for comfort & independence in the cultivation of their farm & garden in the stone clad soil. Rebecca still lignite ins singe blesses , the comfort & assistant of her mother. Signed, with your very affectionate sister, Mary Boggs.

. 1831 Jan 9, Halifax, WILL of Mary Boggs, widow, Nova Scotia
Formerly entitled to a share in the Estate of my late father Robt. Hunter Morris & various money paid to my late husband, James Bogg, Surgeon, did release our interest upon receiving $1200 invested in NS & US.
Sons Thomas & Charles Boggs, Executors of my late husband Estate, do dispose my estate in a similar manner. Signed, MARY BOGGS,.
Proved 1831 Dec 9, Lawrence Hartshorne.
In the last WILL of my late husband the 3 silver salvers bequeathed to son Robert Boggs & at his decade to his son Robt. Morris Boggs, I now hive to my son Thomas Boggs, he paying the heirs to Robt M Boggs a fair & reasonable compensation. Signed, Mary Boggs. - - -

Notes:

John B Lawrence was Half Cousin, once removed, of Richard & John Lawrence of Toronto. The common ancestor was. Capt. William C Lawrence of NJ and England.

PART 1
. 1757 Dec 8 - On the first day of August last were published a New American Magazine, to be published Monthly, by Sylvanus Americanus. The said magazine shall contain a new & complete history of the Northern Continent of American from the time of its first discovery to the present, compiled with the impartiality & regard to the Truth which becomes a faithful Historian. ...those who are willing to encourage this undertaking, are desired to give in their names to the following persons, viz. James Parker, Woodbridge who is proposed to be the printer of this magazine; Mr. Boudinott, Postmaster, Princetown; Mr. Thomas Leonard at Freehold; Dr. Newell, at Allen Town, Mr. John Lawrence at Burlington.
Note1: Many are related to the Lawrence family.
Ref: Pennsylvania Gazette.

. John B Lawrence is sometimes confused with John Lawrence, Esq., Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, directly after the Revolution).

. 1754 - John Lawrence of Burlington, appointed commissioner to erect & lay the corner stone of Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey.
Ref: NJ Archives I: XX Bio. (Digital Antiquariae Archives NJA, 1204A).

. 1759 Nov 29 - John Stillwell, an English servant man; runaway from the farm of John Lawrence in Mansfield, Burlington County. Ref: Pennsylvania Gazette.
JBL was a lawyer, a staunch loyalist. From 1771 to 1775 he was a member of the Provincial council, & regarded by his townspeople as a man of importance. He was Mayor of Burlington in 1769-1775. He was a man of courage.

1760 Dec 5 - Appointed by Legislature as commissioner to erect suitable house at Burlington for the preservation of public records.
. 1761 Apr 7 - Appointed Commissioner to grant relief to townships for supporting to disabled soldiers in the French War.

. John Lawrence served in the royal government during the colonial era. During the revolution Lawrence interceded for the City of Burlington by negotiating for the Hessian General to prevent pillage. When the Hessians were marching on the town in 1775, he was mayor, & at the head of a deputation of citizens, he rode out on the old York Road to meet the enemy & to beg them to spare the place & inhabitants. (This was said to have occurred on the property in the Captain James Lawrence House-John Brown Lawrence). However Lawrence withdrew with the Hessians from the city when the Penn. Navy commenced a bombardment on 12 Dec., 1776.

. 1777 Jan 2 at the Battle of Trenton, Gen. Geo. Washington crossed the Delaware & captured the entire 896 Hessian army along with their much need cannon & supplies. Was it here that Mayor John Lawrence was also arrested? - PJA

Philadelphia Provincial Tax Lists:
. 1769 - Middle Ward: John Lawrence, Esq., 12 Acres, Horses 2, Servants 4, Tax £389.11 .8;
. 1770 - Tax - John Lawrence Esq. Male, Burlington, Burlington Co., NJ.: 1 servant, 2 wheeled chaise. (?)
. 1774 - Middle Ward: John Lawrence, Esq'r., 12 Acres, Horses 2, Cattle 3, Tax £389.11 .8;

NJ Tax List John Lawrence, Esq., Mansfield Twp., Burlington Co.,
. 1770, 350 Acres of Land, 13 Cattle & Horses, 1 Servant.
. 1774, August, Nov. - Dec tax list, Page 27.

. 1776 - John Lawrence was held a prison by the Provincial Congress of N. J. After his release, he went to New York where he held a clerical position in the British Army (?) & while there was an officer in the volunteer militia of Loyalists. He was also a searcher in the supt. General's Department of New York, of which Lieut. Governor Andrew Elliott was the chief. On the evacuation of that city in December 1783, by the British troops, he returned to Perth Amboy, but his estate had been confiscated. He was Vestryman at St. Peter's Church, Perth Amboy in 1790.

* After the War we find JB Lawrence's time was spent at Burlington, NJ. (PJA 2010).

. Apr. 1777 John Lawrence of Burlington was accused of high treason. Joseph Lawrence, Esq., among others, appeared before the Council of Safety & gave evidence against him; while Mr. Peter Imlay gave evidence against (his uncle) John Lawrence, Sr., of Monmouth.
. Member of the Council & a distinguished lawyer. Born in Monmouth Co. His inclination was to take no part in the Revolution; but, suspected by the Whigs from the first, because of his official relations to the Crown, he was finally arrested & imprisoned in the Burlington jail for a long time. Accused of treasonable intercourse with the enemy, he was tried & acquitted.

. 1784 Oct 29, Petition to the Legislature from inhabitants of Burlington City requesting they be granted a charter to incorporate the city, Signed, Jno. Lawrence, Residence 1780.
. 1794 Jan 1794, Name on one of 10 petitions to the Legislative Council & General Assembly from inhabitants of Burlington County opposing a law allowing the inhabitants of the county to decide by vote [decide what?]
Corporate name of Burlington Academy, signed, & sealed 7 names including 9th May, 1795, John Lawrence
* Note2: This is the last known signature of John Lawrence, before his arriving in Toronto in October of 1795. - PJA.

. 1779 Lieut. Col. John G Simcoe, age just 28y, commander of the Queen's Rangers, was a fellow-prisoner & when exchanged said at parting, " I shall never forget you kindness".
Note3: Simcoe had received a serious head wound & was held in Burlington jail from 1779 Nov 10 to Dec. 1st. The pain of this head injury which would continue the rest of Simcoe's life.]
Ref: Council of Safety of NJ

. 1790 Philadelphia, Penn. Water St., East Side Census: John Lawrence, Esq. -.-

PART 2 New Jersey LEGAL WORK of John Lawrence, Esq.

. John Lawrence was admitted to the NJ Bar in May 47 & another at the November Term 1749
Ref: Vroom's Sup Ct. Rules 58 ( the other may have been an attorney who traded at Bordentown 1751.
Ref: Hist Burlington & Mercer Counties, 456.
It was doubtless the Burlington lawyer who as licensed as a Sergeant-at-Law in 1771 Nov 16, Vroom's sup Ct. Rules 54.

(The future Parker-in-laws.)
. AT COUNCIL. Held at Perth Amboy, on the 31st day of January, 1775. Present: His Excellency the Governor, Peter Kemble, Esq., James Parker, Esq., the Chief Justice, Richard Stockton, Esq., Daniel Cox, Esq., John Lawrence, Esq., Francis Hopkinson, Esq. The Board resumed the consideration of the charges brought by the Earl of Sterling against Samuel Ogden, Esq., &, having duly examined & weighted the evidence on both sides produced to the Board, are of opinion, that the said charges are not in anywise supported, but that, on the contrary, the conduct of the said Samuel Ogden, in his endeavors to discover the persons concerned in the counterfeiting the Bills of Credit of this Province, & other atrocious villainies, to have been that of a vigilant & upright magistrate: they are further of opinion, that it is in a great measure owing to his activity & zeal for the public good, that a gang of villains, very mischievous to this & the neighboring provinces, have been detected, & some of them brought to justice. The Board do, therefore, think proper to give Mr. Ogden the fullest assurances of their approbation of his conduct as a good magistrate.
CHARLES PETTIT, D. Clerk of the Council.

. NJ State Supreme Court, sample of some of his legal work:
[John stated his lawyers license was forfeit because of the Revolution, sometime after his trial 1779. JBL Junior worked also in NJ courts. - PJA.]

. 1765, Aug. 15. Thorne, Thomas, of Chesterfield, Burlington Co, Int. Admire: John Imlay, of Bordentown, merchant. Fellowbonds-man: John Lawrence, of Burlington, attorney-at-law. Lib. 12, p. 154.

. Read, Alice, wife of Chas. Read, Will of; Witnesses: Jonathan Odell, Anne De Cow, John Lawrence. Proved Nov. 15, 1769, by Rev. Jonathan Odell, Minister of St. Mary's Church in Burlington, & John Lawrence, Mayor of said City. Lib. 14, p. 82.

. 1782 Aug 28 - (JBL's next door neighbour robbed): 28 Aug. Thomas Fenimore, Esquire, county collect of Burlington was robbed on Friday night last of a considerable sum of publick money, by a number of refugees from Eggharbour.

. 1785 February 20, from Charles Thomas to John Lawrence:
Sir, New York, I have this Moment read, your favour of the 10th.
#1. I can hardly say in what situation the court of appeals now is. Upon finishing the causes before them after the conclusion of peace they wrote to Congress & seemed to wish to know their pleasure respecting the Continuance of the Court. No answer was returned nor was any thing done by Congress.
#2. I should therefore be inclined to think the court still exists. One of the Members namely Cyrus Griffin esquire is as I am informed now at Philada. at which place the register of the Court lives & with him the Appeal must be lodged, if any has been made, For since the establishment of the court no appeals are brought to Congress.
I am Sr, Your obedient humble Servt, Chas. Thomson.
RC (Cty: Kiollenberg Collection). Addressed: John Lawrence Esqr, Burlington." Endorsed: Chars Thomson Concg. Col. Saml. Formans Appeal.
Ref: Letters of Delegates to Congress 174x-1789.

MEETING PRESIDENT GEO. WASHINGTON:
Proceedings of Congress, House of Representatives of the US:
. 1789 April 22, Thursday, A committee of 5 was then balloted for, who are to join a committee of the Senate, to receive the president on the Jersey shore, & attend him to this city. Mr. Boudinot, Mr. Bland, Mr. Benson, Mr. Lawrence, & Mr. Tucker, were elected. Mr Gilman, Mr. Armes, & Mr. Gerry, were appointed a committee to wait on the Vice-President John Adams, on his arrival & congratulate him in the name of the two Houses.
Ref: New-Jersey Journal, Elizabethtown, NJ, published April 22,1789.
. 1789 Apr 30, Boxwood Hall, Elizabethtown, NJ, home of Elias Boudinot. Gen. Washington met the committee of congress & partook of an elegant luncheon. this famous meal was served on a fine service of china & silverware imported from London. It took 2 hours to serve the courses.
Ref: Historic houses of NJ, W J Mills, 1902.

1791 Feb 15, Burlington
. Returns from Essex, Morris, Middlesex, Cumberland counties it appears Messrs. Boudinout, Dayton, Clark & Kitchel, are the 4 highest in said counties among the list of Candidates in the late election for Representatives in this state.
. We are informed that his Excellency the Governor of this State has been pleased to appoint John Lawrence, Esq., Clerk of the Country of Burlington, during the recess of the Legislature, in the room of John Phillips, deceased.
Ref: Burlington Advertiser, NJ, published 1791 Feb 15.

. After the End of Revolution from 1783 - May 1795:
John Lawrence wrote two letters to Wm. Livingston & Elias Boudinot in 1789 concerning the political prospect of the upcoming federal ticket run in Trenton.

. 1793 January 30, 1793: At a meeting of the Burlington Co. Society for promoting Agriculture & Domestic Manufactures, Sat. Jan. 5, 1793, the following were elected for the coming year: Thos. Fennimore, Jr. Treasurer, Corresponding Committees. John Lawrence, Wm. Cox, Esquires.
Ref: New Jersey State Gazette, Trenton, NJ.

* 1794 Nov 9th - A ROBBERY & BURGLARY!
£ Twenty Reward. On Sunday evening last, the 9h inst. And also his desk, & taken therefrom upwards of £100 of the emission of the year 1786, £200 in bank notes, & about $50 in silver.
The above Robbery & burglary was committed by a daring Villain who attempted to add to his list of crimes the one of murder, by cutting my arm while I had hold of him & making 3 attempts to stab me in the body with a knife. The perpetrator of the above robbery was rather a short square made man; his clothes must be bloody as the wounds in my arm bled freely.
JOHN LAWRENCE, Burlington November 10, 1794.
N.B. As it is expected the Jersey money will be offered for sale, brokers & others are particularly requested to pay attention to the above advertisement.
Ref: Philadelphia Gazette, Penn., Published 1794 Nov 12-17th.
Note: Two years earlier Thos. Fenimore, his adjoining neighbour, was also robbed, (& living here was his son, the frontier author James Fenimore Cooper.

. There is a long History of Episcopalian/ Anglican Church in Burlington that shows John Lawrence, Esq., Mayor of Burlington, was among the its earliest & active of members commencing 1768. John Lawrence conducted various legal matters, principally for Rev. John O'Dell then for his replacement. Some of the work included raising money for the relief of widows & orphans of deceased clergymen & Lawrence founding the Burlington Academy for a liberal education. John's sons, Elisha & John, Jr. attended this Academy in 1793.
The Corporate name of Burlington Academy, signed, & sealed 7 names including 9th May, 1795 John Lawrence, is his last known signature in New Jersey, before his arriving in Toronto in September 1795. - . -

PART 3. ARRIVED 1795 IN Town of York, (Toronto), UPPER CANADA

. 1795 Sept 2nd. "By Mr. Lawrence's Account £1.19s.8p
Goods on account for John Brown Lawrence who had just arrived in the Town of York encampment."

* ABNER MILES DAY BOOK, King St., Toronto {Goods on account: Mr. Lawrence:
1795 Mar 18 - 1 bushel potatoes, 10s.6 p.
1796 Jan 9 - 1 Almanac 2 s..; 15 Feb, 7 3/4 lbs. of pork, 2s. May 22, 21 1/4 lbs. flour 10s.8p.
Mar 18, - 1 bushel potatoes,10s. 6p, by King Kendrick; Mar 3, 6 lbs. of pork, 7s.6p;
Mar 10, 4 lbs. of pork 5s.,
May 22 - 1 bushel potatoes, 10 s. 6p.; Nov 26, 1796 (three faint items) £xx 6s.4p.xx.

. 1795 Nov 13 Friday - We left Navy Hall [Newark/Niagara-on-lake] at eight o'clock in the "Governor Simcoe," & arrive at York at five; Drank tea with Mrs. McGill. Mr. Lawrence is come with us; he is lately from the States."

. 1795 Dec 18, Tues. - Mr. Lawrence, who went with the party from motives of curiosity, speaks well of the apparent quality of most of the land; 20 miles from hence, near Bond's farm, he saw two small lakes near each other, from whence many fish were taken. He saw no wild animals.

. 1796 Sep 30 - Baron Wm.. Berczy was a friend of John Lawrence & wrote as a friend, to Niagara on his behalf. Andrew Heron, Brother of Samuel, one of Berczy's shareholders, he was wiling to pay ll Lawrence's expenses.
Ref: Infant Toronto, by John Andre.

. Good friend of the Governor John Graves Simcoe of Upper Canada.
Built Kings grist Mill on the Humber River [2008 now Old Mill Inn, Toronto]. In failing health he made his will on 10 July, 1798, witnessed by John Willson, a fellow lawyer from Burlington, New Jersey (who was licensed for the saw mill on the together with the grist mill on the Humber River, Toronto.

Town of York, Toronto Land Grant: 22 Russell Square, John Lawrence, Esq. (Now the site of Upper Canada College.)

. UCLPetition 39, L Bundle 2, C2124, p910.
To John Graves Simcoe, Lieut. Gov., In Council, Petition of John Lawrence Esq. of the City of Burlington in the late Prov. & now the State of New Jersey... Petitioner desirous to become inhabitant of Prov. Upper Canada & to erect a Grist Mill on the Humber which he conceived will be of Public Utility... wants Lotts, 2 & 3 broken fronts East side Grist Mill on the Humber which he conceived will be of Public Utility... wants Lotts, 2 & 3 broken fronts East side of Humber River also Lott about 30 A West side of River at head of Lake, to build a saw mill & dwelling... at the Humber River also Lott about 30 A West side of River at head of Lake (Ontario).

. Land for for William & James Lawrence, his two sons,
Jackson B French, James Goelet & John Parker (his sons-in-Laws), he has reasons to Expect they will come into & reside in this Province & for whose Loyalty he can Voucher for. Wants the following Lotts on Yonge Street No. 77 & 78 on the west side. Numbers 85: & 87 on the same side, each containing two hundred acres or such other quantity of land as to your Excellency in your wisdom may think meet, etc.
Signed, John Lawrence. [undated letter, but see envelope.]

Envelope: Received Broken Front Lots 1, 2 & 3 East side of Humber, as part or 1200 A. The Committee do not recommend the dismembering any part of the ground attached to the Saw Mill for the Reasons assigned in the Report - nor do they recommend the granting Lots on Yonge Street to Persons out of the Province.
Number 506 given on Wed. 14 January, 1797. Entered Page 63.

Grant #338, Lawrence, John. Esq., 228 acres, York Twp., Date of Grant 12 Mar. 1794, page 22.
XReference: Additional information in my book, copybook of correspondence in the "Simcoe Papers" - & many notes by P J Ahlberg.

. 1798 July 26, UC Land Grants:
Lots, 1, 2, 3 on the River Humber, Twp. York;
South Dorchester Twp., Elgin Co.: Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 Con 4, 800 Acres
Lot 6, Con 7, Blandford Twp., Oxford Co., 172 Acres {ie. near Dorchester)
Lot 33 EHalf, Con 17, Blandford Twp.
Lot 31, EHalf, Con 16, Blandford Twp.
Note: *Compare Land Grant of JBL to Land Grants near to Governor John Graves Simcoe: Lots 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, Concession 1 Broken Front.

ON Land Registration, North York Book 85, p3 & 18, NY Book 86, p3
Lot 1, 2 Con 2 & 3 on Humber river [100 acres?]
. 1797 Sep 1, Patent, Crown, To John Lawrence, All
. 1799 Dec 6, Bargain&Sale, James Ruggles et al [executor], to Peter Whitney et all, 64. all acres
. 1801 Jul , 7 B&S, Peter Whitney, Joseph Haines Sr, All Acres
. 1842 Nov 13, Mortgage, Clark Camble, to Hon Ed Hale, £534. Part 12 Acres.

. 1798 Oct 2 - For your order in favor of Lester (Cast?) £2, (for unstated item - Lester was the bonded servant of John B Lawrence whose health was deteriorating at this time.) King St., Toronto. Ref: Russell Papers.

1. John Brown Lawrence was son of Loyalist, Elisha Lawrence.II, Jr., 1701 AUG 25 - 1791 MAR 7, and Elizabeth Brown, b. 1731 Apr. 23. Descendants all - as is Richard Lawrence - great grandson of Capt. Wm. Lawrence, but different Grandmothers:
John B Lawrence's G-Grandmother is 2nd wife, Elizabeth Smith.
Richard & his brother John Lawrence's G-Grandmother was 1st wife Elizabeth Gildersleeve.

2. William Franklin Lawrence, Born 1766 MONMOUTH, unmarried.

3. Capt. & Commodore James Lawrence born Burlington NJ , Lawyer, but joined Am. Navy 1798 & would become a famous. Naval Hero in War of 1812, "Tell the men to fire faster & not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks!" American. Navy motto "Don't give up the ship". Apparently his destiny was to be tied in the US.
X-Ref: Multitude of Ontario documents on his wife Mary Montaudevert & daughter. Mary Neil Lawrence'.

4. Sons-in-law: Jackson B French of St. Vincent.
married Catherine Lawrence, b. 1764 APR 20, Burlington, NJ. His will dated 1826, Burlington, NJ.

5. James Goelet of NY, (Gouette Goolet: Goulet) married Sarah Brown Lawrence 1764-1828

6. John Parker, born 1760 at Perth Amboy - 1808 Burlington, NJ
married Anne Lawrence, 1764-1831,Burlington, NJ.

DEATH: Rev. Robt. Addison, was the minister from St. Mark's Anglican Church at Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake,) Ontario. H signs his name as Minister of Niagara, he was military chaplain & also acted as chaplain to Parliament both in York & Newark.
"Burials: Squire Lawrence at York, July 3, 1798".
Ref: Archives of Ontario, MS545, Reel 1.

WILL of JOHN BROWN LAWRENCE:
Will dated 29 March, 1798, witnessed, signed, & sealed in the presence of the testor.
Repay the money he borrowed from Elizabeth & Geo. Gillispie, of Bristol Twp., Bucks Co., Penn.
{X-ref: 1782.1.26 JBL was a Executor of the Will of Geo. Gillispie - PJA.]
Signed, John Willson, Asher Mundy, Stephen Barbere, at York, July 10, 1798.
Probated 14 July, 1798.

Note4: Thus John Lawrence had his Will witnessed in his extremity on July 10th, 1798. Perhaps the Minister was notified on the 3rd of July to come to York, a hundred miles distant, or when he returned to Newark, did he mean to write buried the 13th July? - P J Ahlberg.

* 1798 Apr 20 -York Council chamber, Present John Helmsley, Chief Justice; Aeneas Shaw, John McGill, David D Smith, Read the following petitions, John Lawrence, Praying for a town lot in York. Recommended an acre lot in York.

. Forty-seven+ pages of documents & pictures for John Brown Lawrence are included in "Richard Lawrence, John Willson & John Brown Lawrence of NJ & Ontario." 26 pages on Mrs. Mary Lawrence & daughter Mary N. Lawrence are filed with Toronto Public Libraries, North York Branch, Sixth Floor, Toronto & the Richmond Hill Library, Ontario. - by P J Ahlberg, U.E., 2010.

Includes references from: McGill Papers, Russell Papers, Simcoe Papers, Copies of documents Kings Mill, Will. - - -

Birth:
Alt. Name: John Elisha.

Died:
- Date of burial.

Buried:

John married Martha TALLMAN on 14 Nov 1759 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Martha (daughter of Job TALLMAN and Sarah SCATTERGOOD) was born on 20 Apr 1734 in Burlington County, New Jersey; was christened on 20 Apr 1764 in Burlington County, New Jersey; died on 21 Oct 1781 in Burlington County, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Marriage: John Lawrence, Esq'r, Attorney-at-Law, & John Doe Esq'r of the County of Burlington bound to Francis Bernard, Governor £500 14 Nov 1759. John Lawrence obtained license of marriage for himself & for Martha Tallman, spinster [w] S. Blackwood, Sam'l Peart. Ref: L Part 1 1739-63: #129.

. 1763 June 28. Joseph Warton, Jr., merchant, married Sarah Tallman (ie. sister of Martha),
& John Lawrence, Esq., of Burlington, & married Martha Tallman, conveyed land to Joseph Tallman, Jr., & in the deed it appears that Sarah & Martha were daughters and co-heirs of the late Job Tallman, of Mansfield.
John Tallman, of Long Island, conveyed Dec. 2, 1727, to Job Tallman, then of Long Island, part of the five hundred acre Underbill tract, &Joseph Wharton & Job Tallman, in 1732, bought land jointly from Mary Andrews, which they divided Mch. 16, 1747. Job Tallman conveyed his interest by Will, Jan 6, 1758, to his daughters which they conveyed as set forth above, for £1 100.

. Martha was baptized at Burlington, April 20, 1764 with two infant daughters. The Tallman family belong to the Shrewsbury Quakers.
Mount Holly Monthly Meeting, Burlington:
. 1774 Apr 4 - Woman Friends meeting, A certificate from the Monthly Meeting Philadelphia, South District dated 22nd of 6th mo. recommending Martha Lawrence as a member to this meeting was read & accepted.
Note: So this is an unusual event to be admitted considering her husband was a non-Quaker, however possibly because John Lawrence was an active advocate for Quaker rights. - PJ Ahlberg 2019.

. Elizabeth Lawrence, daughter of John 's first wife, Anne Alice Leonard, looked after her half-brother James Lawrence when Martha Tallman died in 1781 a few weeks after James was born.

. James Lawrence's mother, Martha Tall, of Trenton, NJ, died when the proposiatus? was an infant; nothing is recorded of her traits.
Ref: Naval Officers, Their Heredity & Development, By Charles Benedict.

. 1767 May 18 Deed dated 18 May 1767 - John Lawrence & Martha, his wife, & Thomas Rodman, all of the city of Burlington, conveyed to Daniel Ellis & others, Esquires, Justices of the Peace of Burlington county & Timonthy Abbott & others, chosen freeholders of said county, for the consideration of £106 12s., "all that lot of land in the City of Burlington situate on Broad Street beginning at a corner to a street 25 ft wide, then runs along Broad Street N. 83 deg. E. 186 ft. to land late of John Craige's, then S. 15 deg. E. 77 ft to the lot of land where the Secretary's Office stands," etc., for a gaol (?).
Ref: Ellis Family, NJ Historical Society & NJ Deeds, Liber Z.
XRef: See LAWRENCE HOUSE IN BURLINGTON, NJ; (& also pictures in Richard Lawrence & Related Families. - P J Ahlberg)

NJ Tax List John Lawrence, Esq., Mansfield, Burlington Co.,
. 1770 - 350 Acres of Land, 13 Cattle & Horses, 1 Servant.
. 1774 August, Nov. - Dec - tax list Page 27. Page 27-28.
Ref. Monmouth County Tax Ratables, Sep 1774, NJ State Library, Call #: FHL Film 411289. P2, Family # 44.

X-Ref: Dr. James Newell: 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, & asked Dr. Newell to give medical service to André's brother who was ill.
Ref: Those Paris Years, by Samuel N Watson, 1936.

The 'James Lawrence' house is of course also the home of his parents, Martha & John Brown Lawrence:
. 'The light of this world' fell on James Fenimore Cooper September 15, 1789. The founder of American romance was born in a quaint, two-storied house of stuccoed brick which now numbers 457 Main St., Burlington, New Jersey. It was then "the last house but one as you go into the country" & among the best of the town. In a like house next door lived the father of the naval hero, Capt. James Lawrence. These 2 houses opened directly on the street & their slanting roofs were shaded by tall trees rooted at the curbstones.

Burlington was a port of entry on the Delaware River, on the Mount Holly road. The originally named colony of New Beverley, West New Jersey & was established in 1667.
Ref: Industries of NJ, 1882.

. Further Research: What is the relationship? Tallman, Peter, Burlington County, claim against British Forces.
Ref: Burlington. Pg. 17. Claim No. 25.
- This Peter Tallman also prosecuted during the Rev. War, Martha's husband, John Lawrence. - PJA 2012.
Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Birth:
Trenton. ALT NAME: Tollman, Talman.

Died:
Died a few weeks after James's birth.