George Whitehorne Lawrence I

Profile & Legacies Summary

1744 - 1783

Biography

Will of George Whitehorne Lawrence of Epsom Surrey [made in 1781] was proved 01/02/1783. He left Running Gut, which had been settled on him by his father Benjamin Lawrence in 1766, with 138 enslaved people [whom unusually he listed by their names in captivity in the body of his will] to his wife Margery, together with 543 acres of Spring Gut, for life, and then to his brother Benjamin. He had bought a mess[uage] in Church Lane Epsom in 1781, which he also left to his wife.
The Church Lane house is identified in local historical sources as The Cedars, an extant early 18th century building.

Sources

PROB 11/1100/70
Brian Bouchard, 'The Cedars, 14 Church Street, Epsom', http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/TheCedars.html [accessed 20/11/2016]. The site shows a monument for George Whitehorne Lawrence in St Martin's Church that apparently shows his date of birth as 1711: his Oxford University Alumni entry shows him as aged 17 in March 1761.

Further Information

Absentee?

Transatlantic?

Spouse

Margery Barrett

University

Oxford (Pembroke) [1761 ]

Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1774 [EA] - 1783 [EY] → Owner

Running Gut [ Jamaica | St James ]

1783 [EA] - 1796 [LA] → Previous owner

Running Gut [ Jamaica | St James ]