Nathaniel Lawrence
Nathaniel Lawrence | |
|---|---|
New York State Attorney General | |
| In office December 24, 1792 – November 13, 1795 | |
| Governor | George Clinton John Jay |
| Preceded by | Morgan Lewis |
| Succeeded by | Josiah Ogden Hoffman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 11, 1761 Queens, now Nassau County, New York |
| Nationality | American |
Nathaniel Lawrence (July 11, 1761 – July 15, 1797) was an American lawyer and politician.[1]
Life
He was the son of Thomas Lawrence (1733—1816; brother of
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 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.[2]
On February 16, 1796, he was appointed Assistant Attorney General for the First District, comprising
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
- , retrieved 2022-03-08
- ^ "New York Society Library, City Readers". Retrieved 4 March 2022.
Sources
- “Nathaniel Lawrence” (class of 1783), Princetonians, 1776-1783 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), 425-29, 433.
- History of Queens County
- Nathaniel Lawrence at Haley Lawrence genealogy [gives July 15 as death date]
- 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) [gives July 5 as death date]