Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life

CHAPTER I.

BIRTH.--ANCESTRY.--PARENTS.

Amos Lawrence was born in Groton, Mass., on the 22d of April, 1786. His ancestor, John Lawrence, was baptized, according to the records, on the 8th of October, 1609, at Wisset, County of Suffolk, England, where the family had resided for a long period, though originally from the County of Lancaster.

Butler, in his "History of G...