William LAWRENCE

ABT Jul 1622 - 1680

• BIRTH: ABT Jul 1622, Hertfordshire, England
• CHRISTENING: 27 Jul 1622, Great St. Alban's, Hertfordshire, England
• DEATH: 1680, Flushing, Queens, NY

• MARRIAGE:

1.  William LAWRENCE

• MARRIAGE: 4 Mar 1664, NY [5906] [5907]

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[3539] "The Family of Richard Smith of Smithtown, Long Island"
Frederick Kinsman Smith
Smithtown Historical Society, Smithtown, NY, 1967
"Elizabeth Smith (Richard), b. probably in 1643, died in July 1712, m. (lic. 4 Mch 1664)
Captain William Lawrence, of Flushing, L.I., as second wife. They had seven children. He
died in 1680, and she m. (2-lic. 26 Mch 1681) Governor Philip Carteret of Elizabethtown,
New Jersey, b. 1639...Captain William Lawrence, the first husband of Elizabeth Smith, was
one of the patentees of Flushing, in 1645. He was the owner of Tew's Neck and lived there.
He was bap. at Great St. Alban's, Hertfordshire, England, 27 Jly 1622, son of Thomas and
Joan (Antrobus) Lawrence. His father died 20 Mch 1624/5, and his mother m. (2) John Tuttell,
who came to this country with his wife and most of the children, including William Lawrence,
then in his thirteenth year, in the spring of 1635, in the Planter...William Lawrence married
twice and had by his first wife three children, Elizabeth, William, and John."

"New England Marriages Before 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey, Baltimore, MD, 1985
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"LAWRENCE, William (1623-1680) & 2/wf Elizabeth SMITH, m/2 Philip CARTERET 1681?,
m/3 Richard TOWNSLEY; m lic 4 Mar 1664/5; ?Smithtown, LI/Flushing, LI"
"CARTERET, Philip & Elizabeth (SMITH) LAWRENCE, w William, m/3 Richard TOWNLEY,
Elizabeth, NJ; Apr 1681, aft 1680, aft 30 Mar 1681"
"TOWNLEY/TOWNSLEY, Richard (-1711) & Elizabeth (SMITH) (LAWRENCE) CARDERET,
w William, w Philip; aft 1682, by 1691, ca 1685; NJ"

"Names of Persons for whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued
by the Secretary of the Province of New York Previous to 1784"
E. B. O'Callaghan; Albany, NY, 1860
http://www.fortklock.com/marriageTOC.htm
"1664. Mar. 4. Smith, Elizabeth, and William Laurence"
It appears that Elizabeth Smith's sister Deborah married this William Lawrence's son William (by a first wife).

[5906] [S241] American Marriage Records Before 1699

• PAGE: p. 140
  
• DATA:

  Lawrence, William and Elizabeth Smith, 4 March 1664, Smithtown, L. I., N.Y

[5907] [S242] New England Marriages Prior to 1700

• PAGE: p. 455
  
• DATA:

  William Lawrence (1623-1680) & 2/wf Elizabeth Smith, m/2 Philip Carteret 1681?, m/3 Richard Townsley; m lic 4 Mar 1664/5; ?Smithtown, LI?Flushing, LI