Born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
William Lawrence
— married
1657 in Long Island, New Netherland
Descendants 
Mother of
James Lawrence, William Lawrence Jr., Hannah (Lawrence) Leonard, Benjamin Lawrence, Elisha Lawrence Sr., John Lawrence and Joseph Lawrence
Died
at age 80
in Middletown, Monmouth County, Province East Jersey
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Biography
Hannah Townsend. 1657 -- Hannah Townsend and William Lawrence married at Long Island, New Netherland (now New York).[citation needed]
William Lawrence [Sr.,] and [Hannah Townsend] had seven or eight children: one daughter (Hannah) and six sons (James, William, Benjamin, Elisha, John, and Joseph). [1]
Sources
- ↑ Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet Completed. Edward Mayes. Circa 1935. Privately published. Clark T. Thornton, editor. Reprinted 2009. Page 74.
- JACK MOUNT'S GENEALOGY: MY LAWRENCE FAMILY ANCESTRAL LINE, at http://nostalgia.esmartkid.com/lawrence.html
Acknowledgements
- This person was created through the import of Newman Family Tree.ged on March 12, 2011. and through the import of Griffin-Stade Family Tree_2012-11-26.ged on Nov 27, 2012 by Dan Thompson.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hannah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hannah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Marion (Duncan) Smith
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Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup K1c1
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~0.39%
Charles Keys :
23andMe, GEDmatch M081952 [compare]
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~0.39%
Maxine (Jeffrey) Clark :
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Categories: English of Colonial Long Island | New Netherland Settlers | New Netherland Project-Managed | Middletown, New Jersey | Monmouth County, New Jersey
In the interim, I would like to cast my vote for leaving her last name unknown, She needs more documentation.
I agree that it looks like her LNAB should be Unknown. Indeed, we have no reliably sourced evidence for her. However, we do not have the option of "leaving her last name as Unknown" because her name is set as Townsend. To make her Unknown, we would have to change the LNAB, and then we might have to change it to something else after we get some evidence for her profile. Every LNAB change creates a disturbance in the database, so it's probably best to leave her as Townsend while we look for evidence....
Rather than compounding the problem of an unsourced profile by making up different details, is there a member who has investigated this family and is brave enough to write up a profile that explicitly indicates what is and isn't known about her, and what evidence we have?
First Church records indicate that she was baptized in April 1641. Several sources indicate this Hannah married three times--none being William Lawrence-679 from Long Island. Also, this profile gives her b. 1641 and d. 1721 making her 80 at death; and still alive when William is documented marrying Elizabeth Scudder. These issues need to be addressed by the New Netherlands Team.
Both profiles are open. If you can help improve either profile, Jim, you are welcome to do so. The only thing we can’t do without the project leader is change her LNAB to Unknown, but once more sources are added, that’s not likely to be an issue.
I don't believe that William Townsend and Hannah (Penn) Townsend were the parents of this Hannah who married William Lawrence. According to Great Migration by R. C. Anderson, their daughter Hannah did not marry a man by that name.
See here: https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-immigrants-to-new-england-1634-1635-volume-vii-t-y/image?pageName=81&volumeId=13260
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