John Lawrence, Mayor of New York City

Bef 1618 - 1699  (> 80 years)

• Name	John Lawrence
  Suffix	Mayor of New York City
  Birth	Bef 26 Jul 1618  [1, 2]
  Baptism	26 Jul 1618	St. Albans Abbey, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Death	Between 7 Jan 1699 and 15 May 1699  [1, 2]
  Person ID	I42190	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	25 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Thomas Lawrence,   b. Bef 2 Feb 1589   d. Bef 20 Mar 1625 (Age < 36 years)
  Mother	Joan Antrobus,   b. Bef 25 Jun 1592   d. Aft 29 Jan 1660, Carrickfergus, Ireland (Age > 68 years)
  Marriage	23 Oct 1609	St. Albans Abbey, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England   [2, 4]
  Family ID	F21451	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susanna   d. Aft May 1699
  Marriage	Bef 1644  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Lawrence,   b. Abt 1645
  Family ID	F24682	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated in 1635 on the Planter. First at Ipswich, then Flushing in 1645, and New Amsterdam by 1657. Alderman of New York, and mayor from 14 Oct 1672 to 9 Aug 1673 and then from 20 Mar 1691 to 14 Oct 1691.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S8124] "Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Rev. Nathaniel Rogers." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 5:105, April 1851; 5:311, July 1851. [S6417] David L. Greene, "The Royal Ancestry of the Ipswich (Massachusetts) and Long Island Lawrence Families." The Genealogist 10:3, 1989.