ANCESTRY OF THE LAWRENCE FAMILY According to the book John Lawrence of Watertown And Groton, Massachusetts, printed for the Author 1876, it stated on page 71. This brief notice of Lawrence Academy is deemed appropriate in the closing part of the genealogy of the family of John Lawrence, who was born in England 1609, settled in Watertown, Massachusetts 1636, and died in Groton, July 11, 1667. Deacon Samuel Lawrence was actively engaged in its establishment, his sons William and Amos Lawrence contributed liberally for its continuance and endowment, while the present large and convenient building for purposes of instruction, and Bigelow Hall for boarding, &c., show the interest and liberality of existing friends of the institution, and give promise of increasing prosperity in the future. According also to a book call "Memoir Of Abbott Lawrence, by Hamilton Andrews Hill, copyright 1884 (Secound Edition), found in North Carolina State Library, it states on page 2., :       John Lawrence emigrated to Massachusetts in 1635, settling first in Watertown, and removing in 1660 to Groton, where he lived to a good old age, and at his death left a numerous family of sons and daughters. From one of the former of these Samuel Lawrence was descended a man of high character, influential among his fellow-townsmen, and a soldier of the Revolution.   He was born April 24, 1754; and on the 22nd of July, 1777, he married Susanna, daughter of William Parker of Groton. On page 3., its quoted as saiding: Abbott Lawrence, the subject of the present memoir, was the fifth son of Samuel and Susanna Lawrence. He was born in Groton, on 16th of December, 1792; and he received his education at the district school and at the academy of the town. Mr. Lawrence received the family name of his paternal grandmother, Abigail Abbott, daughter of Nehemiah Abbott of Lexington, Massachusetts. The Abbotts emigrated from Featherstone, Yorkshire, England, where they had been settled for many generations. she was married to Amos Lawrence of Groton (father of Samuel Lawrence, and grandfather of Abbott Lawrence), in 1749.   On page 143. of the book "Memoir Of Abbott Lawrence it said: Abbott Lawrence, the American Millionnaire, among whose papers the following document was found after his recent death, had received " The Way to Fortune, or Art of becoming a Millionnaire". According to the New York Times on August 20, 1855, on the death of Abbott Lawrence, its quoted as : Hon. Abbott Lawrence died at his residence in Boston, on Saturday morning, at 11 0'clock. Also saids:   Abbott Lawrence had two brothers William and Amos Lawrence, also listed in this article is that the Lawrence family is one of the most ancient in the Commonwealth, for the name occurs in the history of Watertown as early as the year 1635; the first of the name came from England with Governor Winthrop, in 1630. With his family he moved to Groton at an early period of its settement, for on the 17th of April, 1637, he took the freeman's oath. His name was John Lawrence, and his wife Elizabeth was blessed with eleven children, and from one of them, Samuel, the father of Abbott, was descended. The Ancestral Lineage Of JOHN LAWRENCE, OF WATERTOWN, MASS                                                         Published in 1869 The lineal ancestry of this stock of Lawrences in America, now found quite numerous in New England and other parts of the country, has been at length very satisfactorily ascertained. As traced and determined, it originates in and is derived from one Robert Lawrence, of Lancashire, England; born probably, as early as A.D. 1150, and the ascestor of the earliest families of the name in England. Attending his sovereign, Richard the Lion-hearted, to the war of the Crusades in the Holy Land, he so distinguished himself in the siege of Acre, that he was knighted "Sir Robert of Ashton Hall," and obtained for his arms, "Argent, a cross raguly gules," A.D. 1191.