248 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



occurs in a list of the Grand Jurors for the County of Westchester. 

 Isaac Lawrence died about 1730, leaving three sons, the eldest of whom 

 was Isaac Lawrence, grandfather of the late Augustus Lawrence, Esq., 

 who for so many years filled with great credit the office of Justice of the 

 Peace for the town of Eastchester, whose grandson is the present Dennis 

 McMahon, Esq., of Castle Eden, Morrisiania, The Lawrences of West- 

 chester County, New Jersey and Long Island, descended from John 

 Lawrence of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, England," who died in 1538 

 and was buried in the Abbey of Ramsey, Huntingdon. His eldest son 

 was Henry Lawrence of St. Ives, born 1600, a graduate of Emanuel 

 College in 1622, who came to New England in 1635 with Lord Saye 

 and Seal, Lord Brooke and others, and obtained grants on the Connecti- 

 cut River. He subsequently returned to England and was made Lord 

 President of the Privy Council and Member of Parliament for Hertford- 

 shire — and was buried in St. Margaret's church, Hertford. John 

 Lawrence his youngest son, of Great St. Albans in Hertfordshire, died 

 circ. 1626 leaving by his wife Joan, who was born 1593, three sons, — 

 John, William and Thomas Lawrence — who emigrated from Great St. 

 Albans, in Hertfordshire, to America, during the political troubles that 

 led to the dethronement and death of Charles I. The youngest of the 

 three sons, Thomas Lawrence, was one of the patentees of Newtown, 

 L. L, and proprietor of Hell-gate neck; and died at Newton, July, 1703, 

 leaving by his wife Mary, four sons, Thomas, joint patentee with his 

 father and ancestor of the New Jersey branch ; Isaac, born in 1666-7, 

 who emigrated as we have seen, to Eastchester in 1689 and died circ. 

 x 736- John who removed to Cortlandt Manor in 1730, and Jacob 

 Lawrence of Westchester. 



The Pinckney estate in this town originally embraced the properties 

 of Darius Lyon, Esq., late sheriff of the county, and others adjoining. 

 The Pinckney residence, which stood a little to the south-west of Mr. 

 Lyons was quite a stately affair ; and appears to have been a favorite 

 resort for officers of the Royal army, when stationed in its vicinity during 

 the Revolutionary War. In front of this mansion the young and hand- 

 some Henry Pinckney was shot before the eyes of his family, (by a party 

 of Continental soldiers) whilst endeavoring to effect his escape on horse- 

 back, April 2, 1786. 



a The first aucestor of this family was Sir Richard Lawrens in 1104, who was knighted by 

 Richard I. at tie siege of Acre in 1191. This individual bore for his coat of arms " Argent a 

 cross raguly gules," which is still carried by his American descendants"— after tins the 

 family became eminent in England. In Faulkner's History of Chelsea, Ac, he says, "The 

 Lawrences were allied to all that was great and illustrious ; cousins to the ambitions Dudley, 

 Duke of Northumberland, to the Earl of Warwick, to Lord Guilford Dudley, who expiated on 

 the scaffold the short lived royalty of Lady Jane Grey ; to the brilliant Leicester, who set two 

 queens at variance, aud to Sir Philip Sidney who refused a throne. "— Riker's Annals of New- 

 town, p. 281. 



