Peleg Lawrence

1647 - 1692  (45 years)

• Name	Peleg Lawrence
  Born	10 Jan 1646/47	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Jan 1691/92	Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Notes	Peleg was the sixth son and may have been disabled as his father filed the following petition which probably refers to him: "Groton - 22 - 7 - 1665 To the Hon'ed the County; Co't at Cambridge, Octob. 3. 65. The humble request of Jno Lawrence of Groton, That I having a son being now neere upon age & being called upon to attend service in training, I wld crave libertye to request that hee may be considered and if your Worspps see cause freed from training: his Infirmitye is a losse of more than two joynts on his left Thumb which is his hand he is most active with & [he] is much disnabled fro doing any activity by it: I am not unwilling in my spheare to bee beneficial to ye publig service, yet I psume this may be a disoblig[em]ent upon this acct; The case of ye Lad or chiefe officer is able to informe you of further & yrfore not any; farther to trouble yor Honrs depending upon yr equabl determination I leave my selfe with you & Rest Yors Humbly engaged Jno' Lawrence " [from Historical Sketches of the Lawrance Fam.] He purchased a tract of land adjacent to the SE boundry of old Groton township which is now in Littleton from the Nashobah Indians without the town of Groton's approval. He also owned other lands in the neighborhood. He and his brother, Nathaiel, were among the inhabitants of Groton who sought a temporary refuge in Concord when Groton was destroyed by the Indians in 1676. He served 2 years as selectman, and held some minor offices. He lived on a farm along the great road to Boston, about a mile east of his brother, Nathaniel who lived on the "Mill-Highway", now the road to Ayer, and about 3/4 mile south of the centre of the town and near the "Indain Hills". His name firs appears in the Groton Records in 1669. In 167o he sold to his brother Nathaniel 13 acres of upland lying upon Gibbet hill, formerly the property of his brother, Joseph. From the land records of Groton: "Lands Layd out to Pelleg Lawance on the west end of Stonny Brook Pond, (1) Seaventy acres be it mor or Lesse Bounded as followth [:] northerly by the Lands of Sergt Knop [also a White line ancestor] and towns comon westerly by the Lands of Jonas Prescot Southerly by ye Ridge of ye hill on the south sid[e] of the Brook that Runes out of Spectackle Pond into Stonny brook pond and easterly by Stonny brook pond. (2) forty acres be it mor of Lesse Bounded as ffolloweth [:] easterly ptly by the Lands of Jonas Prescot westerly by the medow of Capt Parker northerly by the Pond at Stonney Brook and southerly by Nashoba [became Littleton] Line and towns comon Land.... (5) ffour acres and thre[e] quarters mor or Lesse upon which his house standeth formerly Layd out to thomas Boydon Bounded southward by the Countrey highway westward with the lands of matthias ffarnworth sen: nothward by fferney medow eastward by the highway." The following are some of the articles mentioned in the inventory of his estate: -- "Wearing cloaths; arms, ammunition and cutlash; Bookes; cart, ploughs, chaine, yoak, siths [scythes], houghs [hoes], spun-yarn, 2 steel traps, one swine." Sum total was L 140 4s. Dated 13 Mar 1693.
  Person ID	I5424	Devin Timber | David Devin Pedigree
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2010

  
  

  Father	John Lawrence,   b. Abt Oct 1609, Wisset, Suffolk, England ,   d. 11 Jul 1667, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 57 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Cooke,   d. 29 Aug 1663, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Married	Abt 1635	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Notes	No record has been found to give the precise date and place. Most of their 13 children were born in Watertown, before they removed to Groton, MA in the late autumn of 1662.
  Family ID	F1900	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Morse,   b. 01 Sep 1647, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  Married	22 Dec 1668	Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Notes	They had nine children.
  Children	+ 1. Eleazer Lawrence,   b. 28 Feb 1673/74, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 09 Jul 1754, Pepperrell, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 80 years)
  Last Modified	23 May 2010
  Family ID	F1898	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S04505] Historical Sketches of Lawrence Family, Richard M. Lawrence, M.D., (Rand Avery County, Boston, 1888), p. 16. QUAY 1 [S04505] Historical Sketches of Lawrence Family, Richard M. Lawrence, M.D., (Rand Avery County, Boston, 1888), p. 7. QUAY 1