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View Tree for Benjamin LawrenceBenjamin Lawrence (b. May 17, 1741, d. March 5, 1814)

Benjamin Lawrence (son of Levin Lawrence and Susannah Dorsey) was born May 17, 1741 in Dorsey's Grove, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and died March 5, 1814 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. He married Urath Randall Owings on January 28, 1762 in Maryland, daughter of Samuel Owings and Urath Randall.

 Includes NotesNotes for Benjamin Lawrence:
SUMMARY OF WILL OF BENJAMIN LAWRENCE

Dated: June 12, 1812
Probated: March 14, 1814.

To son Samuel Lawrence 220¾ acres on south side of the Sinking Fork of Beargrass, purchased from Col. Frederick Geiger, also land conveyed to testator by Silas M. Noel, about 98 acres, part of survey sold by Sheriff as property of Charles Quincy; also $1709.19.

To son Leavin Lawrence tract of land purchased from Yelverton P. Wells; also 500 acres in Ohio County, Virginia, on drafts of Middle Island Creek, provided he pays to estate $1209.25 within two years.

To daughter Susannah [Dorsey] Williamson, 500 acres of land in Ohio County, Virginia, on waters of Middle Island Creek, and $1600.

To daughter Elizabeth Hynes, 500 acres in same location, and $4000; also negroes.

To daughter Rebecca Winchester, $10.00.

To grandchildren Benjamin Winchester, Lavinia Snowden, Olivia, Amanda, Polly D., under sixteen, Louisa, under sixteen, and William Chambers Winchester, under twenty-one, the plantation on which Richard Winchester now lives, 200 acres, part of 300 acres purchased of Col. Frederick and Jacob Geiger on north side of the Sinking Fork of Beargrass, also on north side of a new road cut leading to Isaac Fenley's, to be sold when youngest child becomes twenty-one.

To granddaughter Polly Chambers, the other 100 acres of this 300-acre tract.

To grandson Benjamin Winchester, 500 acres in Ohio County, Virginia, on waters of Middle Island Creek. Mentions William Winchester, Sr. of Baltimore.

To grandchildren Polly Hobbs, Matilda L. Dorsey, Elias Dorsey, Leaven L. Dorsey, Benjamin L. Dorsey, Urath O. Dorsey, each $400, and negro.

Also mentions grandchildren Mathew Brown, Elias D. Lawrence, Leaven Hynes, Lawrence D. Snowden, and Polly D. Haynes.

Executors:Samuel Lawrence, Levin Lawrence, William R. Hynes.
Witnesses:Benjamin Read, Francis Taylor, Jno Evans, Sr., George Rudy.

[Jefferson County, Kentucky, Will Book 2, p12.]

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Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Ancestor #: A067097

Revolutioary War: 2nd Lt., Company No. 3, Soldier's Delight Battalion, Baltimore County Militia


More About Benjamin Lawrence:
Burial: Unknown, Lawrence Family Cemetery, Jefferson County, Kentucky (on Campus of Univ. of Louisville, Shelbyville).
Fact 1: 2nd Lt. in Revolution.
Military: May 13, 1776, Revolutioary War: 2nd Lt., Company No. 3, Soldier's Delight Battalion, Baltimore County Militia.
Military service: Revolutioary War: 2nd Lt., Company No. 3, Soldier's Delight Battalion, Baltimore County Militia/.
Residence: 1799, Moved to Jefferson County, Kentucky.

More About Benjamin Lawrence and Urath Randall Owings:
Marriage: January 28, 1762, Maryland.

Children of Benjamin Lawrence and Urath Randall Owings are:
  1. Samuel Lawrence, b. October 30, 1762, d. November 16, 1763.
  2. Samuel Lawrence, b. September 28, 1764, Maryland, d. September 17, 1822, Louisville, Kentucky.
  3. Mary Lawrence, b. February 28, 1767, d. August 20, 1810.
  4. +Susannah Lawrence, b. May 4, 1769, Maryland, d. June 21, 1818, Jefferson County, Kentucky91.
  5. Rebecca Lawrence, b. July 4, 1771, d. May 12, 1822, Jefferson County, Kentucky92.
  6. Levin Lawrence, b. April 8, 1774, d. July 27, 1846, Jefferson County, Kentucky93.
  7. Elizabeth Lawrence, b. May 2, 1778, d. date unknown, Kentucky.
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