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- . John Lawrence son of John Lawrence & Mary Lawrence was born on Saturday about 8 o'clock in the evening the 22 Oct. 1791. - On 5 July 1825, at York, mother Mary Rezeau Lawrence swore she saw her husband, John Lawrence when he wrote down their children's names & birth dates.
Note1: The names of those children were equally carefully chosen. The following choices MAY have contributed to their name choice:
John Lawrence, SUE., the Xth, (b 1791) - Father's name, cousins; John is a Lawrence & Pollion heritage name:
Grandfather John / JEAN Poillon, great grandfathers Jacques JOHN Poillon, Sr. & Jr.
(Note2: However, Jacques is James in English.) - P J Ahlberg, 2010
. John & MARY Lawrence ... 10 of who are still alive, Peter Lawrence of Yonge St. being on of the sons. Mr. Lawrence died in Dec 1821 & Mrs. Lawrence died, Sept 18,1842, in her 77th year, in the Twp. of Vaughan.
Ref: Death Notices from the Christian Guardian, Pub. 1842.9.21,p91.
Note3: His sister Elizabeth Ann Lawrence died 1823, Toronto. - PJA 2010.
He is believed to have remained in New Brunswick after his father & various family members moved to Ontario. However, this is may not be quite true:
. 1830 June 21, Canada Land Company, A & J LAWRENCE, Lot 5, Con 10, Gwillimbury West, 200 Acres. Further research may be of interest.
. 1875 John Lawrence applied for gratuity by Parliament for Militiamen from [War of] 1812-15.
Ref: National Sessional Papers 1876 No. 7 Pg 48. (Verify this John).
. WITNESSES to the WILL of Samuel Crawford, Queensbury, York Co., Block 3, New Brunswick, to the Guides & Pioneers.
WILL dated 1 Apr. 1812 and proved 10 Jun 1813.
Chas. Ingraham & brother Nathaniel Ingraham all his personal Estate. Executor Chas. Ingraham.
Witness: Jno. Lawrence, Sr, John Lawrence, Jr. & Alexander C. Lawrence
Ref: Early NB Probate Records, by Wallace Hale.
Verify if this John Lawrence, Jr.:
. In making enquiry for the old people, I have been told that an aged person named John Lawrence, sometimes calling himself, Doctor Lawrence, lives a little north of Barrie, at or near the little lake. If so, he is the oldest inhabitant, thought perhaps about my equal in my years. The Lawrence family were so comfortably settled when we arrived that they could & died give very free & kindly hospitality to the incoming settlers. They preceded us by several years.
By Thos. Williams, The Cottage, 3rd June 1891.
Ref: Pioneer Papers, Simcoe County Pioneer & Historical Society.
. THE VESPRA LOTS:
Proceeding northward from Kempenfeldt along the top of the
hill, an object of historic interest is Lawrence's graveyard, at Lot 5,
in which lie many pioneers & their descendants. From the marble
slabs over the graves here & in the Episcopal cemetery onward at Crownhill, may be gathered almost the only remaining records of their lives. The first house built north of Kempenfeldt was John Lawrence's in 1819, on Lot 5, west or Vespra side.
Ref: A history of Simcoe County, Andrew F Hunger 1909. - - -
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1791 - Aft 1842 (> 51 years)