Lawrence Waters

  General Notes:

Sources:
New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Torrey 1985, p.784.

General Register of the Society of Colonial Wars 1899-1902, by the Society of Colonial Wars, New York, 1902, p. 801, Waters, Lawrence, 1602-1687, In garrison at Lancaster, Mass., King Philip's War.


Lawrence Waters was one of the first settlers of Watertown.
~New England Historical & Genealogical Registry, Oct, 1878, p. 446

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation. ¹⁰⁰
Lawrence Waters was a carpenter who lived in Lancaster, Massachusetts.

~ Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston, p. 498

• Records. ^215,360
"Lawrence ye son of Lawrence and Anne Waters borne 14 Dec 1635
Mary the daughter of Lawrence and Anne Waters born 27 Nov 1637
Rebecca daughter of Lawrence and Anne Waters born Dec 1639, and bured 1 Jan 1640
Daniel the son of Lawrence and Anne Waters born 6 Nov 1641
Stephen the son of Lawrence & Anne Water borne 24 Nov 1642"

~New England Historical & Genealogical Registry, Vol. 7, pp. 159 - 162, 282, 283

"Joseph, sonne of Laurance Waters and Ann his wife was borne 17 Nov 1655
Jacob & Rachell, sonne and daughter of Laurance Waters and Ann his wife were borne 1 Jan 1649
Samuel, sonne of Laurance Waters and Ann his wife was borne 14 Nov 1649
Joanna, daughter of Laurance Waters and Ann his wife was born 26 Jan 1653
Ephraim, sonne of Laurance Waters and Ann his wife was borne 15 May 1657
Rachel, daughter of Laurance Waters & Ann his wife died 31 Jan 1649
Joanna, daughter of Laurance Waters & Ann his wife died 21 Feb 1654
Ephraim, sonne of Laurance Waters and Ann his wife died 21 Feb 1659"

~New England Historical & Genealogical Registry, Vol. 16, pp. 353-356

• Records. ⁶⁸⁹
Children born in Lancaster:

Adam Waters, 1645
Twins, Jacob & Rachell Waters, 1 Jan 1649
Samuell Waters, 14 Nov 1651
Johanna Waters, 26 Jan 1653
Ephraim Waters, 27 Nov 1655

~The Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1643-1725, pp. 314-315 or The Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts: 1643 - 1850, pp. 9-10

• Background Information. ¹⁵⁴⁹
Lawrence Waters emigrated to America from England and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, before 1634. Born in 1602, in England; married Ann Linton. They lived in Woburn, Massachusetts, then removed to and built the first house in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Was in Charlestowm, 20 Mar 1675 and died 7 Dec 1687. "He and his wife were warned for having danced."

McCall-Tidwell and Allied Families, by Ettie Tidwell McCall, Published by Walter W. Brown Publishing, Atlanta, George, 1931, p. 383

• Background Information. ¹⁵⁴⁸
Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, p. 85. by Mellcene Thurman Smith, has Lawrence Waters of England, Watertown and Lancaster, Mass., b. Eng. 1602, d. Mass. Dec. 9, 1687, m. Sept. 1635 to Ann Linton, d. 6 Feb 1680. There children were:
• Lawrence, b. 1635
• Sarah, b. 1636, m. John Sheath
• Mary, b. 1637, m. Samuel Davis
• Rebecca, b. 1639/40
• Daniel, b. 1641/2
• Stephen, b. 1642
• Joseph
• Jacob, b. 1647
• Rachel, b. 1649
• Samuel, b. 1651
• Joanna, b. 1654
• Ephraim, b. 1655
• Adam, b. 1670

Services: "Lawrence Water, proprietor of Watertown 1636-1637. One of three men sent to make purchase sure for settlement of Lancaster 1643. In 1647, there were at least three permanent settlers of the plantations of Lancaster, Richard Linton, Lawrence Waters and John Prescott, all from Watertown. Soldier in King Philip's War; garrison on his property. Crossing the river about twenty rods above "Sprague Bridge" the first house and lot No. 18 was Lawrence Waters."

• Background Information. ⁶⁸⁹
Lawrence Waters, a carpenter of Watertown, was one of three sent up, in 1645, by grantees of the Nashaway Plantation, to make suitable preparation for their own coming. By his wife, Ann Linton, he had six children born in wather town. The proprietors assigned him a lot upon which he built a house. Lawrence became a freeman in 1663/ After the massacre of 1676, he is found with his wife and Samuel with his wife and two children seeking shelter in Charlestown. Lawrence was blind at the time, and later died 9 Dec 1687, in Charlestown, aged about eighty-five yers, outliving his wife by seven years.

Early Records of Lancaster Massachusetts , pp. 260-261

Lawrence married Ann Linton, daughter of Richard Linton and Elisabeth, about Sep 1635 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.¹⁵⁴⁸ (Ann Linton was born about 1613 in England, died on 6 Feb 1680 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Suffolk, British American Colonies ⁶⁸⁹ and was buried in Feb 1680 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Suffolk, British American Colonies ⁶⁸⁹.)