Surname Saturday - LAWRENCE (England > colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 7th great-grandmothers, up to number 591, but I don't know her name. So it's on to number 593: Hannah LAWRENCE (1662-after 1726). [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two American generations of this LAWRENCE family line is:

1.  Randall J. Seaver (1943-living)

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

18.  Edward Hildreth (1831-1899)
19.  Sophia Newton (1834-1923)

36.  Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857)
37.  Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857)

74.  Josiah Sawtell (1768-1847)
75.  Hannah Smith (1768-1827)

148.  Ephraim Sawtell (1735-about 1800)
149.  Abigail Stone (1736-before 1800)

296.  Hezekiah Sawtell (1703-1779)
297.  Joanna Wilson (1701-1786)

592.  Obadiah Sawtell, born 14 September 1648 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 20 March 1740/41 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 1184. Richard Sawtell and 1185. Elizabeth.  He married about 1680 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
593.  Hannah Lawrence, born 24 March 1661/62 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died after 1726 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of Obadiah Sawtell and Hannah Lawrence are:
*  Nathaniel Sawtell (1681-1742) married 1710 Sarah Higginson (1682-1750)
*  Elnathan Sawtell (1683-1717) married 1709 Martha Landon (1683-1748)
*  Ephraim Sawtell (1685-1768) married 1713 (1) Abigail Farnsworth (1687-1753); married 1755 
*  Josiah Sawtell (1687-1690)
*  Helphzabeth Sawtell (1689-????), married 1706 Hannah Foster (1681-????).
*  Esther Sawtell (1690-????), married 1710 Samuel Bowers (1685-????).
*  Josiah Sawtell (1691-1752), married 1713 (1) Lydia Phelps (1688-1717); married 1718 (2) Lydia Nutting (1686-1756).
*  Zachariah Sawtell (1693-1730)
*  Hannah Sawtell (1695-1749), married 1719 Stephen Holder (1687-1757)
*  Abigail Sawtell (1697-1787) married 1716 Joseph Parker (1689-1753)
*  Mary Sawtell (1699-1766), married 1718 Benjamin Parker (1691-1769)
*  Obadiah Sawtell (1701-1749), married 1721 Rachel Parker (1698-????).
*  Hezekiah Sawtell (1703-1779), married 1723 Joanna Wilson (1701-1786)

1186.  George Lawrence, born 1637 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 21 March 1708/09 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 29 September 1657 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
1187.  Elizabeth Crispe, born 08 January 1636/37 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 28 May 1681 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 2374. Benjamin Crispe and 2375. Bridget.

Children of George Lawrence and Elizabeth Crispe are:
*  Elizabeth Lawrence (1659-????); married 1681 Thomas Whitney (1656-????)
*  Judith Lawrence (1660-1713), married 1681 John Stearns (1657-1722)
*  Hannah Lawrence (1662-after 1726), married 1680 Obadiah Sawtell (1648-1741)
*  John Lawrence (1664-1674)
*  Benjamin Lawrence (1666-1733), married 1689 (1) Mary Clough (1669-1695); married 1696 Anna --?-- (1668-1716); married 1716 Elizabeth Coolidge (1671-1718); married 1719 (4) Elizabeth Bennett (1663-1738).
*  Daniel Lawrence (1666-1743), married 1689 (1)  Sarah Counts (1670-1694); married 1695 Hannah Mason (1665-1721); married 1722 Maud Russell (1676-????).
*  George Lawrence (1668-1736), married 1696 Mary Hemenway (1674-1741).
*  Sarah Lawrence (1671-????), married 1691 Thomas Rider.
*  Mary Lawrence (1671-????), married 1689 (1) John Earl (????-1704); married 1704 Michael Flagg (1651-1711)
*  Martha Lawrence (1680-1708), married 1697 John Dix (1672-1726)
*  Grace Lawrence (1680-1758), married 1698 John Edes (1680-1721).

Information about the George Lawrence family was obtained from:

* Henry Bond, M.D., Family Memorials: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts (Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown & Co., 1855)

*  Emily W. Leavitt, "Descendants of George Lawrence," New England Historic Genealogical Register, Volume 46, number 2 (April 1892), page 149.

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