Samuel LawrenceAge: 74 years17351810

Name
Samuel Lawrence
Given names
Samuel
Surname
Lawrence
Birth September 27, 1735 40 34
Birth of a brotherJonathan Lawrence
October 4, 1737 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a brotherDaniel Lawrence
November 26, 1739 (Age 4 years)
Death of a paternal grandmotherDeborah Woodhull
January 6, 1742 (Age 6 years)
Death of a brotherNathaniel Lawrence
October 24, 1761 (Age 26 years)

Death of a brotherJohn Lawrence
August 5, 1764 (Age 28 years)
MarriageElizabeth HazardView this family
about 1765 (Age 29 years)
Death of a fatherJohn Lawrence
May 7, 1765 (Age 29 years)
Death of a motherPatience Sackett
October 24, 1772 (Age 37 years)
Death of a brotherRichard Lawrence
November 21, 1781 (Age 46 years)
Death of a brotherJoseph Lawrence
January 28, 1793 (Age 57 years)
Death of a brotherWilliam Lawrence
January 13, 1794 (Age 58 years)
Death of a brotherDaniel Lawrence
November 7, 1807 (Age 72 years)
Shared note: He died in an area then known as Lawrence's Point
Death August 22, 1810 (Age 74 years)
Shared note:

Samuel died by drowning at Hell Gate, described in French's Gazetteer as ' a narrow,tortuous passage between Wards Island and Hallets Point, near the N. extremity of the town [Newtown].'

Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage: December 8, 1720Newtown, Queens, NY (Presbyterian Ch)
9 years
elder brother
-8 years
elder brother
12 years
elder brother
-11 years
elder brother
15 years
younger brother
-12 years
elder brother
2 years
elder brother
4 years
elder sister
4 years
himself
4 years
younger brother
Family with Elizabeth Hazard - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: about 1765Newtown, Queens Co., NY

  1. Generation 1
    1. Samuel Lawrence, son of John Lawrence and Patience Sackett, was born on September 27, 1735 in Newtown, Queens Co., NY and died on August 22, 1810 in Newtown, Queens Co., NY at the age of 74. He married Elizabeth Hazard about 1765 in Newtown, Queens Co., NY.

Death

Samuel died by drowning at Hell Gate, described in French's Gazetteer as ' a narrow,tortuous passage between Wards Island and Hallets Point, near the N. extremity of the town [Newtown].'

Shared note

The early death of his wife and child and his confinement and bodily injury which he was subjected to during the possession of Long Island by the British troops probably tended to increase the peculiarities that strongly marked his character. These political injuries left him in a deep rooted hostility towards the British government which time had no effect in softening ..... [Riker] .