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- Alice is the daughter of William Lawrence & Margaret Tilton.
Ref: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), Boston Transcript, 1906-1941.
1776 -1782. Alice Lawrence, Shrewsbury Delegate, Friends' Quarterly Meeting.
. 1777 Oct 4th, Sat., 3:00 P.M, Present, His Excellency, Wm. Livingston, Mrs. Leonard, wife of Thos. Leonard, who acted as a Major in the British Services & is now a prisoner of war to the Unites states, was sent over to New York sometime ago by order of Brigd. Gen. Forman, & has lately returned to this State. She complains of indisposition & requests that she may be permitted to tarry in Monmouth Co. until she be reinstated in her health, & that she be suffered to pass to Easton, to see her husband, & from thence to return to the said County there to abide.
Agreed, that Mrs. Leonard be permitted to pass to Easton, or to any other place in which her Husband may be fixed; & to remain with him; & that she go thither without delay.
. 1795 Feb 23 - WILL of her father, William Lawrence, left Alice £30 & 3 silver spoons.
Extracted: Brigadier Gen. David Forman of Monmouth Co., Committee of Retaliation, was one of the most notorious offenders ... lack of civil means for citizens to seek redress.:
. 1777 Oct 7, WORTHY PATRIOTS ... Foreman had an arbitrary manner presumed to banish some women out of this state into the enemy's lines. This induced me to lay before the Gov. & Council of Safety, on 28 Aug., 1777 a Remonstrance on information of the arbitrary stretch of power by Davie Foreman & others. That my daughter Mary Leonard, the wife of Thomas Leonard then & yet a prisoner & by permission of our Chief Justice go leave to lay her complaint before the Governor & Council. Where I attended with her last Saturday, to my great astonishment to hear arguments that I never suspected to come from the mouths of Freeman much less from those who are chosen Guardians of our Freedom to defend Freeman under his pretense of Martial Law. Gen. G. Washington wrote a letter urging New Jersey to pass a law limiting the militia & troops from blundering & abusing civilians.
. 1786, Oct. 30. Thomas Leonard married Alice Lawrence, 1st Reformed Church, Freehold.
Note: Marriage in the Reformed Church must have met with displeasure from Alice Lawrence's Quaker Friends. PJA 2011.
FOUR LAWRENCE SIBLINGS TOGETHER AT ST. JOHN, New Brunswick, Canada; Queensbury Co., NB Land Grants: In 1787 the four Lawrence siblings originally settled adjacent to each other:
Mrs. Alice Lawrence Leonard was located at Lot One, Saint John, N.B.,
Mrs. Margaret Lawrence Nicholson at Lot 52,
Lieut. John Lawrence on one side of the Saint John River at Lot 101,
Lieut. Richard Lawrence, Lot 169, on the other side of the Saint John River.
Adjoining Lieut. John Lawrence's grant was Rev. Jonathan Odell who was a close friend of their cousin & a church member, John Brown Lawrence who was Mayor, of Burlington, New Jersey. - - - [1, 2, 3]
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1756 - 1827 (70 years)