Bigelow 5 LAWRENCE

19114       Col. Bigelow 5 LAWRENCE, son of Patience 4 ( James 3 ( James 2, (John 1) BIGELOW, and SAMUEL LAWRENCE , was born in Killingly, CT 27 May 1741 and died 19 January 1818 Marcellus, Onondaga co, NY.  He married Asenath Curtis who was baptized 14 June 1744 in Southington, CT and died 28 September 1831 in Marcellus, Onondaga co, NY.  She was the daughter of Peter and Chestina Parker Curtis of Simsbury, CT. Bigelow was a Captain and Major in the Revolutionary War, and was of a regiment in the NY militia in the War of 1812.  About 1778 he removed to Shaftsbury, VT from CT and about 1795 to Marcellus.  He bought soldiers claims and acquired considerable land in the county.  Of his 14 children 12 married and settled near Marcellus.  The first 9 children were born in Simsbury, CT.

Children of Bigelow and Azenath (Curtis) Lawrence:

1.    Bigelow Lawrence Jr. b 17 Oct 1762; d 04 Aug 1825 b Marcellus; m Eunice Herrick

2.    Joab Lawrence, b 17 Feb 1764; d 10 Nov 1832 b Marcellus; m Jemima Cross 10 Nov 1785

3.    Peter Lawrence, b Nov 25 1765; d 07 Aug 1823 in Marcellus, b Marcellus; m Sarah Mix 12 Apr 1787 Bennington, VT

4.    Rufus Lawrence, b 27 Oct 1767; d 09 May 1817 b Marcellus; m Jane Whippo 24 Mar 1790

5.    Levi Lawrence, b 26 Sept 1769; d 24 Feb 1812 b Marcellus; m Eliz. Whelpley 1 and Lucretia Brown 2

6.    Calvin Lawrence, b 12 June 1771; d 1774

7.    Asenath Lawrence, b 16 Aug 1773; d 17 Jan 1839 m Samuel Parker

8.    Candace Lawrence, b 11 Sept 1775; d 6 Jan 1862 Jordan, Onondaga, NY; m Nathan Leonard

9.    Calvin Lawrence, b 16 Jan 1778

10.   Jepthah Lawrence, b 02 Dec 1780 in Shaftsbury, Bennington, VT; d 18 Mar 1844 b Marcellus; m Sarah Clift

11.   Susanna Lawrence, b 25 Sept 1782 Shaftsbury, VT; d 05 Nov1803; m Eben Rice

12.   Dorastus Lawrence, b 13 Mar 1786 Shaftsbury, VT; d 11 Feb 1862 b Marcellus; m Persia Curtis 1, Rachel Lampson 2, Julia Wheaton 3 (see Lawrence Family)

13.   Infant Lawrence, b 06 Sept 1787 Shaftsbury, VT; d 1787 same

14.   Diana Lawrence, b 25 Mar 1789 Shaftsbury, VT; d 24 Mar 1807; m Caleb Atwater in N Adams, Berkshire, MA

Here is the information I have on Bigelow Lawrence of Marcellus, Onondaga, NY: It was taken from the Lawrence genealogy which cites the following Sources:
Killingly Town Records;
Simsbury Town Records,
The William Curtis Family of Marcellus record,
Dr. Israel Parson's notes, of Marcellus, NY;
Onondaga Centenial Vol. I;
Beachamps Cemetery Records,
Beachamps Rev. Soldiers in Onondaga.
Anyone interested in more info on this family please feel free to contact me, I have much more information on them as Bigelow Lawrence is my patriot ancestor under whom I'm a member of the DAR.  Mary Ellen Popyk

Sources:
Bigelow Society, The Bigelow Family Genealogy Vol I pg 82-83;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
Ralph Mills, A Mills Genealogy;
Barbour, Index of CT Vital Records.
Descendant note:
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 21:13:40 EST
From: Mary Ellen Popyk      email     (MEPopyk@aol.com) not valid 2010
     What a pleasure it was to stumble upon your site while researching my Warren ancestors.  I am a member of the DAR under my patriot relative Bigelow Lawrence, whose lineage looks like this: he was the son of Samuel Lawrence b
Jan 1710/11 in Sherburne, MA and Patience Bigelow b Jan 1733/34 in Killingly, CT. She was the daughter of James 3 Bigelow b May 1668 d Aug 1718 and Mercy.  He was the son of  James 2 Bigelow b 1660 in Watertown, MA and Patience Brown b Mar 1668/9 Sherburne, MA and d in Shaftsbury, VT.  He was the son of John 1 Biglo and Mary Warren whose names you probably recognize.
     Bigelow settled in Marcellus, Onondaga, NY after the war and was granted lots of land.  My family still lives in that town today, and all the generations are buried there.  I have recently started to look for more information on this line of the family, I studied the Lawrence line while doing my DAR research and have found much interesting information.
     I wanted to introduce myself, I am an avid genealogist.  I live in Memphis, TN after growing up in Marcellus, which isn't too far from where you are. Let me know if I can offer you any information.  I recently came across a GEDCOM that listed the Warren line back to the Warren's of medieval England, do you know if there is accurate proof of this line?  I'll share it with you if you haven't seen it.  I am extremely interested in medieval history although I'd consider my specialty in genealogy in the colonial New England era.  Nice to meet you, cousin!  Mary Ellen Popyk
More:
Great web site...... I didn't get far enough to see you had Patience and Bigelow in there the first time.  I have all the information on Bigelow's children, taken from both the Lawrence genealogy (pertaining to the Central New York Lawrence's) as well as the gravestones in the Village Cemetery in Marcellus.  I can fill in almost all the blanks on Bigelow Lawrence's family.
You are missing my ancestor Dorastus Lawrence (son of Bigelow and Asenath) who married a distant  cousin of his mother's (their last names were both Curtis). Thanks for such a great source of information.  Until later!  Mary Ellen Popyk

Patience (BIGELOW) LAWRENCE
 
      James 2 Bigelow, son of John 1 and Mary (Warren) Bigelow,  lived from 1660 to 1728.  He married three times, having issue by the first two wives.  Of his total of four children, only two survived to marry and have families: Patience , wife of Samuel Wood, and who lived at Groton, MA; and James Bigelow, jr.
     James  jr. was baptised in Watertown in 1688 and married, presumably in 1716, Mercy ___. James died in 1718 in Weston, Massachusetts leaving a young child, Patience. His widow soon remarried and moved to Killingly, CT.
     Concerning James' daughter Patience , a curious set of circumstances arose, as her birth was not recorded in infancy.  When the child was several years old, the mother and a neighbor lady came to register the birth, both attesting the child was a certain age.  The clerk then subtracted the age from the current year, and entered the birth as 15 June 1716.  Some years later the mother again called on the town clerk, and showed her marriage record, which was a month or so after the recorded date of Patience's birth.  All concluded that Patience must have been born 1717.  The town records were altered, and in 1736 the clerk appended a lengthy note stating how the official document had come to be defaced.
     Patience was married in Killingly, Connecticut on 24 January 1733 to Samuel Lawrence, born 1710.  They lived some years in Killingly, then moved to Simsbury, but after a number of years again, are said to have moved to Norwich, where they remained many years before returning to Simsbury.  The Mills family genealogy refers to an extant Bible of the Samuel Lawrence family, but quotes none of it save that Patience died in 1798, and Samuel on 10 April 1793, both in Simsbury.
 
From town records of Killingly and Simsbury, we take the following family of Samuel and Patience (Bigelow) Lawrence:
 
i Mercy, born 22 June 1735 Killingly, CT; married 17 Mar 1757 Michael Mills of Simsbury.
 
ii   John, born 29 Mar 1737 Killingly, CT; married 27 Oct 1759 Elizabeth Wilcockson, daughter of Azariah; 3 daughters were born in Simsbury, after which they appear to have moved.
 
iii   Susanna, born 4 Apr 1739 Killingly, CT; married 21 Mar 1765 Uriah Case of Simsbury.
 
iv    Bigelow, born 27 May 1741 Killimgly, CT; married about 1760 Azenath____ they had 8 children born in Killingly before 1779, after which they appear to have left the town.
 
v a daughter, born 21 June 1743 Killingly.
 
vi      Sarah, born 12 Sept 1745 Killingly, CT; died young.

vii     Samuel, born 2 Apr 1748 Killingly, CT.
 
viii    Sarah, born 31 July 1750 Simsbury, CT.
 
ix  Luther, born 15 Nov 1751 Simsbury, CT.
 
x Zerviah, born 20 May 1754 Simsbury, CT.
 
xi   James, born 25 Jan 1758 Simsbury, CT.
 
Sources:
Howe, Bigelow Family in America;
We ton    To  & Church Records;
vital records of Killingly & Simsbury, taken from Barbour Index;
Ralph A. Mills, Mills genealogy.

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