| Lawrence | |
|---|---|
 Coat of Arms of Henry Lawrence | |
| Place of origin | Wissett, England |
| Founded | 1191 (Lancashire) 1635 (America) |
| Founder | John Lawrence |
| Connected families | Adams Amory Appelton Bigelow Cabot Cunningham Dana Loring Lowell Peabody Pierce Prescott Saltonstall |
The Lawrence family (or Lawrance family)[1] is a Boston Brahmin family,[2][3] also known as the "first families" of Boston, who arrived in Watertown, Massachusetts from Wissett, England in 1635.[4][5]
- ^ Lawrence, John (1857). The Genealogy of the Family of John Lawrence, of Wisset, in Suffolk, England, and of Watertown and Groton, Massachusetts (1st ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: S.K. Whipple and Co. p. 4.
- ^ Mann, Anthony (2003). "How poor country boys became Boston Brahmins: The Rise of the Appletons and the Lawrences in Ante-bellum Massachusetts" (PDF). Historical Journal of Massachusetts. 31 (1).
- ^ Maggor, Noam (February 20, 2017). Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age. Harvard University Press (published 2017). ISBN 9780674971462.
- ^ Farrell, Betty G. (September 6, 1993). Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston. New York: State University of New York Press (published 1993). ISBN 1438402325.
- ^ Historical Journal of Massachusetts (Volumes 31-32 ed.). University of Wisconsin (Madison): University of Wisconsin - Madison. 2003.