Lawrence Turner (1667 - 1719)

Born 1667 in Middletown, Newport, Rhode Island

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Died 15 Apr 1719 at about age 52 in Middletown, Newport, Rhode Island

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UNCONFIRMED ANCESTOR. DISCREPANCIES ABOUT PARENTAGE, DATES OR BIRTH OR DEATH, or other criteria make this identity possible – only.

Birth of daughter: Anne Hodges (born Turner) Middletown, Newport, Rhode Island, USA 1709

Name: Lawrence Turner Sex: Male Daughter: Phebee Turner Other information in the record of James Coggeshall and Phebee Turner from Rhode Island Town Marriages Index Name: James Coggeshall Event Type: Marriage Event Date: 24 Nov 1723 Event Place: Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States Gender: Male Spouse's Name: Phebee Turner Spouse's Gender: Female Spouse's Father's Name: Lawrence Turner ^[1]

Name: Lawrence Turner Father: Lawrence Turner Birth Date: 1667 City: Middletown County: Newport State: RI Country: USA ^[2]

Name: Lawrence Turner Event Type: Birth Birth Date: 1667 Birth Place: USA Father's name: Lawrence Turner Mother's name: Sarah Turner Page Number: 37 Volume Number: 123 ^[3]

The will of Lawrence Turner was proved at Newport, Rhode Island on 4 may 1719.^[4] Parts of the document including the preamble and date are illegible due to the age of the document. He names:

• well-bloved wife, Mary Turner (named executrix)
• nine daughters, each bequeathed 10 pounds: Mary, wife of Job Peckham, Sarah, wife of George [illegible], Susannah, wife of Joseph Bright[illebigle], Elizabeth Turner, Hannah Turner, Anne Turner, Content Turner, Phebe Turner, and Diana Turner
• legacies of 50 pounds each to second son John Turner and third son Joseph Turner
• enslaved girl Kate, given to his wife Mary
• son William Turner (under 21)

Sources

1. ↑ Rhode Island Town Marriages Index, 1639-1916," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24H-3535 : accessed 27 May 2018), Lawrence Turner in entry for James Coggeshall and Phebee Turner, 24 Nov 1723; citing Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, town halls, Rhode Island, and Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; FHL microfilm 44.
2. ↑ Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
3. ↑ The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
4. ↑ Mrs. Burnham R. Creer, "Family of Lawrence and Mary Turner of Newport, R.I." The American Genealogist 22 (1945) pages 218-220

Acknowledgments

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