LAWRENCE
Robert Lawrence, merchant of London, England, patented land in Isle of Wight Co, Virginia
John Lawrence (will 2 Jan 1696) married Mary, and lived in Nansemond Co, Virginia
Robert Lawrence (c1680-1744) married Elizabeth
Nicholls, daughter of John Nicholls and Elizabeth Osborne. They moved
to Bertie Co, North Carolina
1. John Lawrence (c1721) married Jane Walston
2. George Lawrence (c1725) married Sarah
3. Humphrey Lawrence (c1726-1772) married Ann Ashley
4. William Lawrence married Elizabeth
5. Elizabeth Lawrence m(1) Thomas Sutton, m(2) Thomas Spiller, m(3) Samuel
Spruill
6. Thomas Lawrence (c1733) married Elizabeth
7. Robert Lawrence (c1735)
8. Martha Lawrence married Joseph Parker
Humphrey Lawrence (c1726-1772) married Ann
Ashley, daughter of Thomas Ashley, Jr (c1710-1790) son of Thomas Ashley and
Ann Plowman; and Ann Hicks, daughter of David Hicks and Elizabeth.
Humphrey was a goldsmith in Bertie County.
1. Frederick Lawrence (c1746-1823) m(1) Judith Walston, m(2) Mary widow of
Elisha Rhodes
2. Reuben Lawrence (c1748) married Frances Ashburn
3. David Lawrence (c1750-1786) married Sarah Emelia Payne
4. Ann Lawrence (c1762-1834) married Richard Dillon
5. Nathaniel Lawrence (27 Jul 1766-24 Dec 1849) m(1) Catherine Rumph, m(2) Mary
A
. . Schuyler, m(3) Mary Andrews. Moved to
Orangeburgh, SC, then to Lowndes Co, Mississippi.
Ann
Lawrence (c1762-1834) married by 1776
Richard Dillon (7 Oct 1745 - 7 Oct 1833)
They lived in Bertie County, North Carolina until 1789, then Barnwell District,
South Carolina, leaving there in March 1807 for "the west" and were in Amite Co, Mississippi for the 1810 census, receiving land in Marion County that year, near "Dillons Bridge," just above the Louisiana line west of Highway 27, which fell into Pike Co. when it was formed in 1815, and Walthall County in 1914.
Ann was a founding member of Bogue Chitto Baptist Church 31 Oct 1812. Family Tradition
says that Richard's wife was Annys Morris, but documentation is lacking.
See Bevin Creel's exhaustive 2002 study of Richard Dillon and his descendants A Patriot's Legacy
http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH6&CISOPTR=20691&REC=1&CISOSHOW=16375
1. Joanna Dillon (1778-) married Jeremiah G Smith
, Pike Co, MS
2. Nancy Ann Dillon (1779-1869) married John Stallings, Pike Co, MS
3. Lawrence Dillon (1783) m(1) Martha m(2) Dicey Miller
4. Clarkson Dillon (1785) married Sarah Gill
5. Willis Dillon (1787) married Mary Jane Smith
6. Mary Dillon (1793-1876) married Salathiel Morris, then Moses Miller
7. Theophilus Dillon (1796-after 1874) m(1) Margaret Pearson, m(2) Lucy Bickham
8. Clara Dillon (1799-1886) married George N Smith, Pike Co, MS
9. Sara Dillon (1804) married Daniel Graves
Joanna Dillon (1778) m.1798 Jeremiah G Smith (1773-1843)
Martha "Patsie" Smith (1802-1861) m.1818 Edwin Barksdale Alford
Harriet Jane Alford m.1847 Tyra Jennings Tynes
Walter Edwin Tynes (1848-1928) m.1871 Frances Mary Tate
Jeanne Marie Tynes (1878-1958) m.1913 Carson B Matthews
Frances Mary Tate Matthews (1917) m.1949 Virgil Raymond Liptrap
James Matthews Liptrap (1951)