Enosh Lawrence

The following is from "History of Groton, Massachusetts": Enosh Laurance being lame in his hand, so as disinable him to handle his Armes, is freed from all ordinary trayneings, paiyng 5s annu. to the Military company of the Place. In his petition, which was presented to the Governor and the General Court in the autumn of 1702, Lawrence sets forth that he "is a very poor man and by reason of wounds is his hand, receoved in a fight with the Indians in the former indian War is allmost wholly disabled from following his dayly Labour upon which he depends for a livelyhood both for himself and his family"; and in consequence thereof he asks for help, which was duly granted by giving him a pension during life, besides relieving him from public taxes." Note (- this is Ruth's 2nd marriage)

-- from www.blankensteingenealogy.net/new_page_38 Historical Sketches of Some Members of The Lawrence Family by Robert M. Lawrence, MD (1888) pages 38-9

ENOSH LAWRENCE (1649-1744), the seventh son of John of Wisset, Eng. Was born in Watertown. He married the widow RUTH (WHITNEY) Shattuck, (1) March 6, 1676-7, and had four sons. Soon after his marriage he removed to Groton, and settled in the north part of the town. The exact location of his hose is not now known. He served the town as a surveyor of highways, tithing-man and fence-viewer. He was also chosen a "hog constable" in 1691. In the year 1702 the Provencial authorities granted him immunity from taxation, and a pension of three pounds sterling yearly, on account of physical disability contracted in an encounter with the savages during King William’s war. He lived to extreme old age.

The following description of a portion of his real estate is from the third volume of Groton Land Records: --

"The Lands of ENOSH LAWRENCE: (I) His houslot Ninteen acres mor or Lesse Bonded east upon his own medow and on all other poynts by the highwayes[;] twelve and a half of this land he had of his Brother Zachary and Seavin acres he had of his Brother Joseph Lawrance."

ENOSH LAWRENCE had also twenty-five acres "near the Silver mine," ten acres at Babbitasset, and three acres and a half in Half-Moon meadow.

(1) Wattertown Records.

The Genealogy of the Family of John Lawrence of Wissett, in Suffolk, England, and of Watertown and Groton, Massachusetts By Rev. John Lawrence, Jr. (1869)

Page 25 The Genalogy. The Generations and Families. Generation No. I.

Family No I. John Lawrence, son of Henry and Mary, born at Wissett, England; baptized Oct 8, 1609; came to New England, married Elisabeth _______, and settled in Watertown. They had children: -- …

10. VIII. ENOCH, b. March 5, 1648-9. 6, Groton …

Page 31-2 Generation No. II.

Family No. 6. – ENOCH,2 m. March 6, 1676, in Watertown, RUTH, daughter of John and Ruth Whitney and widow of John Shattuck, of Watertown. They had children: --

58. I. Nathaniel, b. Feb. 21, 1677-8, in Watertown. I0, Grotton

II. Daniel, b. March 7, 1681, in Grotton. 11, Killings and Canaan, Conn.

III. Zechariah, b. July 16, 1683. 12, Groton and Peperell.

IV. Jeremiah, b. May 1, 1686

He died in Groton, Sept. 28, 1744, when nearly ninety five years old.