Mary LAWRENCE, .i
1665 - 1713 (48 years)-
Name Mary LAWRENCE Suffix .i Born 1665 Flushing, Queens, Long Isl., New York 
Gender Female Died 13 Apr 1713 Elizabethtown, Essex Co., New Jersey Person ID I537 Richard Patterson NJ & ON Last Modified 18 Nov 2018
Father Capt William C. LAWRENCE, .1
b. 27 Jul 1622, Great St. Albans, Herts., England
d. 14 Mar 1680, Tews Neck, Flushing, New York (Age 57 years) Mother Elizabeth SMITH
b. 1643, Smithtown, Suffolk Co., Long Island, New York
d. Jul 1712, Elizabethtown, Essex Co., New Jersey (Age 69 years) Married 4 Mar 1664 Hempstead, Livingston, Long Island, Nassau Co., New York - "Whereas I have received information and satisfaction that there is an intent of Marriage between William Lawrence of Flushing and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith of Mishaquak'd, upon Long Island upon their request I give them license, so to do and do herby require you to proclaim the said William Lawrence and Elizabeth Smith man and wife and so record them and to proceed therein according to your formed customs on the like occassions. Given under my hand at Hempstead this 4th day of March 1664. Richd. Nicholls.
Note: Lawrence father and son married two Smith sisters:
Older sister Elizabeth Smith in1664 married William Senior, who was his second wife,
{or in other words, sister Eliz. is now the mother-in-law.
In 1680 William Jr. married Deborah, the youngest daughter of Richard Smith, the Patentee of Smithtown on Long Island, NY. {i.e. Deborah now became her older sister's daughter-in-law. - - -
Family ID F29 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Rev. Edward VAUGHAN
b. Est 1665, New England Married Elizabethtown, Essex Co., New Jersey Last Modified 20 Feb 2010 Family ID F363 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 James EMMOTT
b. c 1660, England
d. Apr 1713, Queens Co., Long Island, New York (Age 53 years) Married Between 1682-83 Last Modified 19 Sep 2008 Family ID F20 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- "Whereas I have received information and satisfaction that there is an intent of Marriage between William Lawrence of Flushing and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith of Mishaquak'd, upon Long Island upon their request I give them license, so to do and do herby require you to proclaim the said William Lawrence and Elizabeth Smith man and wife and so record them and to proceed therein according to your formed customs on the like occassions. Given under my hand at Hempstead this 4th day of March 1664. Richd. Nicholls.
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Notes - . Richard Townley arrived in the colonies in 1683 with Francis Howard, Lord Effingham, governor of Virginia He left Virginia for Elizabethtown where he me Lady Elizabeth Carteret, marrying her in 1684. No prenuptial agreements were signed, before this wedding. Townley was an Anglican and a Jacobite, a support of James II.
Townley immediately became a leader in the community. He offered his home for services by Rev. John Brooke, an Episcopal priest. The house was the brick house built by Sir Philip Carteret for his bride. Col. Townley donated land for St. John's Episcopal Church in 1711.
. 1698, Flushing, Queens Co., New York,
"An exact list of all ye inhabitants' names withing ye Towne of Flushing & p'cincts and old & young freemen & servants white, black & coloured:"
Debora Lawrence, William Lawrence.
. Rev. Edward Vaughan followed Rev. Brooke in 1707. He married Townley's step-daughter Mary Lawrence Emmot, a widow.
Ref: New Jersey's First Capital, 1664-1775, by Jean Rae Turner, Richard T Koles.
Mary Lawrence's first husband & was Mr. Emmot. - - -
- . Richard Townley arrived in the colonies in 1683 with Francis Howard, Lord Effingham, governor of Virginia He left Virginia for Elizabethtown where he me Lady Elizabeth Carteret, marrying her in 1684. No prenuptial agreements were signed, before this wedding. Townley was an Anglican and a Jacobite, a support of James II.