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- . 1784 Jun 14. Letters remaining in the Post Office at Trenton: Miss Mary Lawrence, Bordertown.
Ref: NJ Gazette, Trenton, NJ.
. 1897 - J. Lawrence Boggs of Perth Amboy recorded the Yellow Meeting House Monument:
"At the feet of her father [Elisha] & Beneath this stone are deposited the remains of Miss Mary Redman LAWRENCE suddenly snatched from life in the bloom of health on the 5th day of October 1802 in the 20th year of her age."
"Her form was lovely, but her mind the abode of every virtue."
. 1802 Oct 27 - Died: Bordentown, Miss Mary R Lawrence, daughter of Gen. Elisha Lawrence. Bordentown, Miss Mary Lawrence, second dau. of late Gen. Elisha Lawrence.
Ref: New York Evening Post, & Trenton Federalist Newspaper, NJ on 1802.10.18.
. 1802 Oct 25 - Obituary:
Died at Bradenton, on Tuesday 5 Oct., Miss Mary R Lawrence, 2nd daughter of the late Gen. Elisha Lawrence, a veteran of this state. This young Lady was cut down in the bloom & pride of youth. Funeral expenses are too common to be much regarded, but the writer of this know the deceased from her earliest infancy & with true declares, she was severing thing her found parents could desire. She possessed a lovely form, & beauty sufficient to satisfy it most devoted admirer. But there were trifles, when put in p]competition with her numerous good qualities, deeply impressed on the heart of all who new her. A widowed other bends with submission to the stoke that has torn from her arms a child that anticipated her every wish. But in the midst of this affection dispensation, let us remember it is the Lord, let him do without seemeth him right.
It is a singular circumstance, that in one short week, 3 young lades, nearly of the same age, & nearly connected where taken from the highest heart to the grave.
On Tuesday, the 28th September, died in Philadelphia Miss Kitty Redman, in her 10th? year.
On the Saturday following, her sister, Miss Elizabeth Redman, in her 21st year & on the following Tuesday, Miss Mary R Lawrence, in her 20th year. They were first cousins & thought life lived in the greatest love & in their death were not divided.
"Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice
Thy shafts flew trice: & trice my peace was slain
And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had stilled her horn."
Solemn & awful is the warning to their surviving young friends. The shafts of Death fly quick. None can tell for whom the next is designed. To be also ready, is your highest wisdom.
Ref: Trenton Federalist Newspaper & True American Newspaper, Trenton, NJ
. Monument: Miss Mary Redman Lawrence, died suddenly, in the bloom of health, Oct 5, 1802, in her 20th year, (large horizontal stone.) - - -
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1783 - 1802 (19 years)