8o FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



William, born Dec. 9, 1827, and now living at Laconia, N. H. 

 He has been married, and has had two daughters, but the 

 wife and both children are dead. He died at Laconia on 

 September 6, 1908. 



The children of Abel and Eliza (Baldwin) Lawrence are Abel 

 Lorenzo, born at Groton, March 2, 1850, married Nelly Payne, of 

 Detroit, Mich., and died there, Sept. 12, 1893, leaving two sons, both 

 married, of whom one, Harold Payne Lawrence, took the degree of 

 M.D., at the Detroit College of Medicine in May, 1905 ; and 



Charles, born atTownsend, April 23, 1851, married, Aug. 18, 1880, 

 Fanny D. Marsh, daughter of Charles D. and Margaret (Quackenbush) 

 Marsh, of Marlboro ; now living at Groton, no children. He died in 

 Boston, November 22, 1909. 



The will of the first Nathaniel, here mentioned, is on file in the 

 Middlesex Probate Office at East Cambridge. It is dated August 

 30, 1775, and was received at the office on October 4, 1775; ^"^ 

 his death must have taken place between those dates. It was not 

 probated at Cambridge — where the office then was — until May 28, 

 1776. The delay, doubtless, was due to the confusion in the neigh- 

 borhood during that Revolutionary period when the town was occu- 

 pied by the American troops. The assent to its probate was signed 

 by five of the children, and by a grandson Nathaniel, only son and 

 surviving heir of Nathaniel, Jr. In his will he mentions son John, 

 whom he made executor, daughter Dorothy Hudson, sons Thomas 

 and Isaac, daughter Abigail Gilson, and daughters Eunice and Martha. 

 His daughter Dorothy was married to Benaiah Hudson, of Pepperell, 

 on March 7, 1754, and his daughter Abigail, to Nehemiah Gilson, of 

 Groton, probably in the year 1765 ; and they both had large families. 



" The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register," July, 1907. 



AN ECCLESIASTICAL COUNCIL. 



The following paper, recently brought to light, gives about 

 the only information we have of an Ecclesiastical Council, 

 held at Groton, on April 15, 1712, which was called to con- 

 sider the troubles between Mr. Bradstreet, the minister, and 

 the church. The exact nature of the complaints then made 

 by his parishioners is not known, but from the answers to 



