Lawrence family

Lawrence
Coat of Arms of Henry Lawrence
Place of originWissett, England
Founded1191 (Lancashire)
1635 (America)
FounderJohn Lawrence
Connected familiesAdams
Amory
Appelton
Bigelow
Cabot
Cunningham
Dana
Loring
Lowell
Peabody
Pierce
Prescott
Saltonstall

The Lawrence family (or Lawrance family)[1] is a Boston Brahmin family,[2][3] also known as the "first families" of Boston, who arrived in Watertown, Massachusetts from Wissett, England in 1635.[4][5]

  1. ^ Lawrence, John (1857). The Genealogy of the Family of John Lawrence, of Wisset, in Suffolk, England, and of Watertown and Groton, Massachusetts (1st ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: S.K. Whipple and Co. p. 4.
  2. ^ Mann, Anthony (2003). "How poor country boys became Boston Brahmins: The Rise of the Appletons and the Lawrences in Ante-bellum Massachusetts" (PDF). Historical Journal of Massachusetts. 31 (1).
  3. ^ Maggor, Noam (February 20, 2017). Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age. Harvard University Press (published 2017). ISBN 9780674971462.
  4. ^ Farrell, Betty G. (September 6, 1993). Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston. New York: State University of New York Press (published 1993). ISBN 1438402325.
  5. ^ Historical Journal of Massachusetts (Volumes 31-32 ed.). University of Wisconsin (Madison): University of Wisconsin - Madison. 2003.

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