Nathaniel Lawrence
Nathaniel Lawrence (July 11, 1761 – July 15, 1797) was an American lawyer and politician.
Life
He was the son of Thomas Lawrence (1733—1816; brother of Jonathan Lawrence) and Elizabeth (Fish) Lawrence. He attended Princeton College, but left to fight in the American Revolutionary War as a lieutenant.In 1788, he was a delegate to the New York State Convention which ratified the U.S. Cons*ution. He was Secretary to the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York from 1790 to 1794. He was a member of the New York State *embly in 1791, 1792, 1795 and 1796. He was New York State Attorney General from 1792 to 1795.
He was a member of the New York Society Library, which has records of books he borrowed in 1791 and 1792.
On February 16, 1796, he was appointed *istant Attorney General for the First District, comprising Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Richmond and Westchester Counties, and died in office.
He married Elizabeth Berrien (1762–1800; aunt of John M. Berrien), and they had two daughters: Margaret Elizabeth Lawrence who married Philip Lindsley, and Elizabeth Lawrence who died in infancy.
References
Sources
- “Nathaniel Lawrence” (cl* of 1783), Princetonians, 1776-1783 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), 425-29, 433.
- History of Queens County
- Nathaniel Lawrence at Haley Lawrence genealogy
- Google Books The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858; pages 36, 166, 169 and 287)
- History of Long Island by Benjamin Franklin Thompson (New York City, 1839; page 426)
- Death notice, original from the New York Journal, republished in Queens County in Olden Times by Henry Onderdonk Jr. (Jamaica, NY, 1865; page 87)