Ancestry of
John Lithgow

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John Lawrence

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1172 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1610 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jul 1667 
  • Death Location:
  • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1635 
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  Nathaniel Lawrence (Ahnentafel No:586 )

  Peleg Lawrence

  Enoch Lawrence

  • Notes: 

  • Some 19th century publications state that John Lawrence was the son of Henry Lawrence whose English origins were from Wisset, Suffolk, England. This pedigree has since been disproved by George Andrews Moriarty in 1933.

• Additional marriages for John Lawrence

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  • Spouse:
  • Susanna Bachelor
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Nov 1664
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for John Lawrence

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Joseph Morse (m. 1638), pp. 4-5.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Watertown, Vol. 1, p. 14, Birth record for son Enosh Lawrence.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 204.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. IV, I-L, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2005), 246-254.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 125.
  • ⁶ Cutter, William Richard, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex Co., Mass., Vol. 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 1523-1524.

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