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- Cornell Genealogy was John Lawrence was x to John who married Sara Bridges:
Mayor of New York
. 1672 Oct 23 - At a special court of the Mayor, John Lawrence pointed to examine a certain claim made by Jacques Cousseau, & Aldermen Van Ruyven, Depeyster & Darvall.
. October 26th: In the mayor's court the first cause is recorded in Dutch, the others in English. Anna Wessels demands for a debt to her, from Ryrner Van der Coote, that Symon Hawkes, the servant of Rymer Van der Coote, may be condemned to serve out the remainder of his time for said debt.
. 3 December 3d: The sheriff brings Thomas Crancon, a carman, into court, for " uttering of xx language, & bad speeches against Mr. Pell, Mr. Atwood, & others of the inhabitants." The carman confessed, & promised better behaviour: "The court passed by his error, but ordered him not to suffer his daughter to go any more in the cart; but he himself to attend the Kart, or put an able person in his stead." A man coming into court states that in compliance with their order, he had kept the peace & in no manner molested his wife, & therefore, requested that his wife should be ordered to come & live with him, he promising to behave himself. She is sent for, but declares that she had tried him so often & been deceived, that she "would rather dye than be brought to it again." But the court determined that being lawfully married, & no just cause of separation, they do live together as man & wife.
. 1673 April 8th. Upon information given to the Mayor's Court, the court ordered that William Pamer shall make appear to Mr. Mayor before next court day, how he was married, & by what means he came by this wyfe.
Ref: History of the New Netherlands, Vol 2.
. 1679/80 19 January, William Haviland wrote to Governor Edmund Andros as follows:
The Humble Petition of William Haviland. Sheweth. That your Excellences Patron Brother-in-Law [perhaps referring to Haviland, himself] Capt. Thomas Hicks did in the year 1666 obtain a patent from Governor Nicholls for a certain neck of Land called Madnans Neck within the limitts of the town of Flushing the which by consent & agreement was divided into equall thirds between him, Mr. Richard Cornell, & Mr. Elyas Doughty. That presently after the settlement being twelve years ago (the Patron bought Mr. Doughtys interest in his third of the said land & hath inhabited thereupon) or part thereof ever since but finds himself encroached upon by his neighbours Mr. Cornell & Mr. Hicks & is debarred by them of having his the proportion of ye neck so purchased by him there being only 3 lots laid out, besides their own accommodation, & the rest left in common, which if divided might be better improved. That your patron hath often desired a division might be made of the said neck so that each proprietor might know his share & proportion the which hath been promised but hitherto delayed & neglected. That now his neighbors Mr. Cornell & Mr. Hicks having settled their son in law John Washburn on one of the three lots last laid out Mr. Cornell is settling his other son-in-law John Lawrence on commons of said neck under pretense of purchase of other lands thereby which will be much to the damage & prejudice of the patron. He therefore humbly prays your Excellence that a stop be put to the intended settlement of the said John Lawrence in that place & that some person or persons be appointed to make an equal division of the said neck between them, so that your patron be not frustrated of his Right & his Labour on said Land. Will Haviland.
Ref: Documents relating to the History of the Early Colonial Settlements principally on Long Island , p.744-45, Albany, NY 1883.
Lawrence Witnesses
. 1687 28th of 8th mo., [in the margin of the record the date is 29 of 1st month 1681], Ephraim Allen, of Shrews.,
married to Margaret Wardell, of Shrews., at the house of Eliakim:
Witnesses: Wm. Lawrence, Sr. & Jr. & John Lawrence. [brother or son?]
Ref: The Friends Records of Shrewsbery, N. J.
. 1689 ye 10th of September, At a meeting at ye house of John Lawrence, justice of the Peace, Francis Rumbouts, JP, being then present the Will of Anthony De Milt was proved.
Ref: Abstracts of Wills in the Surrogate's Office, City of NY, Staten Island, Wills & Letters of Administration, Richmond County, New York.
. 1712 September 27, WILL of John Lawrence, of Flushing, in Queens County, In the name of God, Amen, I, being in health.
- I leave to my wife Elizabeth Lawrence, all my houses, lands, orchards, & meadows that I now live upon;
until my son, Richard Lawrence, is of age, & then he is to enter into possession of one half;
- I leave the other half to my son Benjamin when he is of age, & my sons are to pay to my wife £20 per annum. I leave to my wife all household goods & certain negroes;
- I leave to my son, William Lawrence, 2 cows;
- To my daughters, Charity & Sarah, each a negro girl.
- I leave all the rest of my movable Estate to my daughters, Elizabeth Ford, Mary Briggs, Charity, & Sarah.
Executors: Colonel Thomas Willetts & John Stevenson.
Witnesses, Deborah Lawrence, Daniel Lawrence, Jacob Doughty.
WILL Proved, 1714 Feb 7.
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