. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. VAK CORTLANDT AKSI£, 100 NEW JERSEY AS A OOL. while John Woodward, also an ensign, of Mon-mouth County, was one of the fighting Quak-ers of Tory proclivities. In civil life one branch of the Lawrencefamily of Monmouth County were ardent elder John Lawrence, who ran one of theseveral division lines between the provinces ofEast and West Jersey, was arrested by the Whigsand kept in jail, as was his son. Dr. John Law-rence, a graduate of the first class of the Phila-delphia Medical College. Another son wasElisha Law
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. VAK CORTLANDT AKSI£, 100 NEW JERSEY AS A OOL. while John Woodward, also an ensign, of Mon-mouth County, was one of the fighting Quak-ers of Tory proclivities. In civil life one branch of the Lawrencefamily of Monmouth County were ardent elder John Lawrence, who ran one of theseveral division lines between the provinces ofEast and West Jersey, was arrested by the Whigsand kept in jail, as was his son. Dr. John Law-rence, a graduate of the first class of the Phila-delphia Medical College. Another son wasElisha Lawrence, last royal high sheriff ofthe County of Monmouth, who, having beenactive in organizing a corps of loyalists, wasmade lieutenant-colonel of the First BattalionNew Jersey Volunteers. In the skirmishing onStaten Island, August 22, 1777, Lieutenant-Col-onel Lawrence was captured by Colonel MatthiasOgden. Removing to Nova Scotia, and thenceover-sea, Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence died atCardigan, Wales. Another prominent Tory of the same familyname was John Brown Lawrence, of Burlington,a friend of the Rev. Jonat
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