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    Mercy Lawrence

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    • 5th Great-grandmother of John Ritter — 8th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 225 
    • Birth Date:
    • 20 Mar 1707 
    • Birth Location:
    • Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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    • Death Date:
    • 11 Aug 1794 
    • Death Location:
    • Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • AFT 7 Nov 1729 
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    • Children:

    • Thomas Fox

      John Fox

      Mercy Fox

      Jabez Fox (Ahnentafel No:112 )

    • Notes: 
    • Some source incorrectly state that Mercy Lawrence was the daughter of Daniel and Mercy Lawrence. This is disproved in "The American Genealogist" (30:111-112).

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  • Sources for Mercy Lawrence

    • 4 Woodstock, CT: Vital Records, 1686-1854, p. 337, Death record for Mercy Fox.
    • 5 Bowen, Clarence Winthrop, The History of Woodstock, Connecticut: Genealogies of Woodstock Families, Vol. 5, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1933), 82, incorrectly gives Mercy's parents as Daniel and Marcy Lawrence.
    • 6 Fox, N. M., A History of that Part of the Fox Family Descended from Thomas Fox of Cambridge, Mass., St. Joseph, Missouri: Union Print Company (1899), 63.
    • 7 Guild, Mary Stiles (Paul), Genealogy: Strobridge Morrison or Morison Strawbridge, Lowell, Massachusetts: Vox Populi Press: S. W. Huse and Co. (1891), 27.