Col. Elisha LAWRENCE & Elizabeth DRAKE

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Col. Elisha LAWRENCE
Elizabeth DRAKE

Husband: Elisha LAWRENCE
Birth: ca. 1740/44, Piscataway [Twp.], Middlesex Co., NJ
Death: 1791
Disposition: buried "Old Frankstown Cemetery," Frankstown [Twp.], Huntingdon [now Blair] Co., PA
Military Service: Revolutionary War

Marriage: 1769

Wife: Elizabeth / Elizabet DRAKE
Birth: 7 Aug 1746, Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., NJ
Death: 23 May 1791, Hollidaysburg, Frankstown [Twp.], Huntingdon [now Blair] Co., PA
Father: FitzRandolph DRAKE (1717-1791)
Mothere: Rachel McCLAIN / /McLAIN / MacLAIN (1723-1811)

Children:

. Rachel LAWRENCE, b. 1767, NJ
. Elisha LAWRENCE
. Rebecca LAWRENCE; m. Robert NIXON
. Elizabeth LAWRENCE, b. ca. 1770s
. Jemima LAWRENCE, b.
. Phebe LAWRENCE, b. 1785, NJ
. Mary LAWRENCE

?. Lucy LAWRENCE, b. 1788; m

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; USA, US, United States, New Jersey, Pennsylvania

Sources (n.b., Huntingdon Co. was form in 1797 from Bedford Co.; Blair Co. was formed in 1846 from Bedford and Huntingdon Cos.):

1. Marriage Record:

. Find-a-Grave: Entries (online at findagrave.com):

Name Elisha Lawrence -

Birth 1744 -

Death 1791 -

Note "Buried in the Old Frankstown Cemetery" -

Burial Brua Cemetery
Frankstown, Blair Co., PA -

Inscription - -

Father - -

Mother - -

Spouse - -

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Memorial # 15439226 -

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. Member Stories (online at Ancestry.com): linked to a tree containing our subject.

Elisha Lawrence was a wealthy patriot and a Colonel in the New Jersey Militia, gave nearly all his fortune to feed Washington, not repaid, he sold the rest of his holdings and moved to the frontier at Frankstown, Pennsylvania, and was a neighbor of Aaron Deveny. Col. Elisha Lawrence married Elizabeth Drake, daughter of Fitz Randolph Drake, a lineal descendant of Capt. John Drake, brother and heir of Sir Francis Drake (1541-1596). Fitz Randolph Drake was loyal to England and returned there when the Revolutionary War began. Elisha and Elizabeth lived and are buried at Frankstown, near Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.

Romantic tales about not being repaid for feeding Washington's troops should always be taken with a grain of salt, but there's no doubting Elisha served in the Revolution.

. Descendants of Robert Lawrence: Elisha Lawrence (online at lawrencefamhis.com; boldface added):

"Kenan Lawrence in his manuscript, History of the Lawrence Family... sumitted and published in Historic Virginia Families, volume VIII pages 84-86... The several Elisha Lawrences in New Jersey have been completely traced, and there is no connection between them and the Virginia-North Carolina Elisha Lawrences...

Because one of those Elisha's was once (acting?) Governor of Virginia, the incentive to fudge a connection has been high.

. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).

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