Isaac Lawrence (1704 - 1793)

Born 25 Feb 1704 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Hewitt) Lawrence — married 19 Dec 1727 in Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut

Husband of Amy (Blodgett) Palmer — married 1770 in Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 2 Dec 1793 at age 89 in Canaan, Connecticut, USA

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Biography

"It is supposed that with his parents, when a child, he removed to Plainfield, CT where it is presumed he remained until his removal to Canaan CT. In the absence of all direct proof, by public record or otherwise, that the family of which he was a member, removed from Groton to Plainfield, the following statement from the records of Groton, according to Butler's History, must be relied on. Groton was a frontier town, and much exposed to Indian depredations. The suffering was so extreme, that many became discouraged and removed from the town. Several families went to Plainfield, CT, and others contemplated going to the same place. Among the latter were Daniel Lawrence, Joseph Lawrence, uncle of Daniel, and Zachariah Lawrence who was uncle or brother of Daniel. ( Likely his brother since his uncle was a seaman out of Boston during this period ) This took place in 1707, while Daniel, Jun., and Isaac, sons of Daniel, were young children.......

In the spring of 1738, with a team composed of a yoke of oxen and a horse, he started with his family and goods in a cart for his new home, in what then called the new and western country. East of New Hartford it was partialy settled, but in the remaining distance there was not a house, and he was obliged to cut his road, and bridge the streams too deep to ford. The distance by the route which he took, through the north west part of Norfolk, and near the corner of New Marlborough, was 30 miles or more, and the time occupied in making the journey from New Hartford to his destination, was nine days. Some say fourteen.

On one of the nights of their journey through the forest, although it was late in May, there was a fall of snow. In the morning when they awoke the track of a bear was discovered in the snow near the cart, at which the children manifested surprise that they were not eaten....

He reached his destination on the second day of June, 1738, and encamped under an oak tree, sleeping in their cart, eighty rods south west of the tavern house which he subsequently built, and near where the saw mill now stands."

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Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry & Posterity of Isaac Lawrence
2. ↑ Source: #S-2067415570 Ancestry Family Trees http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=10006069&pid=823132916

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