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ters of the 15th and 27th of March,-30th of April, and 4th of May last.

You appear to have shown a proper Attention to your Duty, as well in publishing the Order of His Majesty in Council, inclosed in my Letter No 28, as in the Steps you took to give Efficacy and Dispatch to the Plan for recruiting His Majesty's Forces.

The Board of Trade has, in consequence of your Notification of the Death of M! Smith, recommended M Lawrence' to supply the Vacancy.

John Lawrence was a prominent lawyer of Burlington for many years. He was a grandson of Elisha Lawrence, one of the earliest settlers of Monmouth county, who married Lucy Stout, and died at Chestnut Grove, Upper Freehold, Monmouth county, May 27, 1724. The latter's son, Elisha Lawrence, married Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. John Brown, and had children: John; Anne, who became the third wife of Reynold Keen, of Philadelphia, and died August 1, 1823, in her seventy-second year; Elizabeth, who married Dr. James Newell, of Upper Freehold, and died February 22, 1791, aged sixty years.-Penn. Hist. Mag., V., 97-8; Dr. Wicke's Hist. Medicine in New Jersey, 431. There was a John Lawrence, senior, of Monmouth county (the Surveyor, who ran the Lawrence Line" between East and West Jersey), and his son, John Lawrence, junior, afterwards a physician, besides one or more of the same name, of the Quaker family of Lawrences, at Bordentown. Hence the Burlington lawyer was often spoken of as John Brown Lawrence, after his maternal grandfather, to distinguish him from the several other John Lawrences. There was a John Lawrence admitted to the New Jersey Bar in May, 1747, and another at the November Term, 1749.-Vroom's Sup. Ct. Rules, 58. One of these was undoubtedly the Burlington lawyer; the other may have been an attorney who traded at Bordentown, 1751-7.-Hist. Burlington and Mercer Counties, 456. It was doubtless the Burlington lawyer who was licensed as a Sergeant-at-Law in 1771.-Vroom's Sup. Ct. Rules, 54. John Lawrence was elected to represent Burlington county in the Assembly of 1767.--Minutes. It is not likely that it was the Assemblyman who was one of the Committee of Lawyers to present charges against ex-Sheriff and Assemblyman Samuel Tucker, in 1769, as related by Judge Field. - Provincial Courts, 170. Mr. Lawrence was Mayor of Burlington in 1769.-Hills's Church in Burlington, 296. When Col. Donop approached Burlington with his Hessians, December 11, 1776, Mr. Lawrence, with the Rev. Jonathan Odell, M. D., Rector of St. Mary's Church, and two or three other of the principal citizens, went out to meet the troops, and to intercede with Col. Donop to protect the town from pillage by his soldiers. To this the Colonel graciously agreed, and he and some of his officers dined with Mr. Lawrence. The American gunboats lying in the river fired upon the town to drive the Hessians out, compelling their retreat to Bordentown, whither Mr. Lawrence, Dr. Odell and others were obliged to accompany them, in order to avoid arrest by the Americans for harboring the enemy.Hills, ut supra, 315; The Smiths of Burlington, 170. Mr. Lawrence subsequently returned to Burlington. On March 31, 1777, he was "desired" by the Governor and Council of Safety to "attend" them at Bordentown. He did so on April 3, when he was examined, but it is not stated that anything came of this.-Minutes Council of Safety, 1777, 11, 12. He was for many years a leading member and officer of St. Mary's Church in Burlington, his name appearing repeatedly in the church records from 1765 to 1795.—Hills, 286, 305, 324. 341. He was also one of the first Trustees of

I was concerned to find by your letter of the 30th of April that you had been disappointed in your Expectations that the Assembly would make Provision for supplying the King's Troops with the necessaries required by Act of Parliament, and that the Arguments which you very properly urged to induce them to a Compliance, had an Effect so contrary to your Wishes. The King however approves of your Resolution to persevere in your Demand, and I shall be very glad to hear that it has been attended with the Success you say you have reason to hope for.

Inclosed I send you two Orders of His Majesty in Council on the 7th instant, disallowing two Laws passed in New Jersey, the One in Nov! 1769, the Other in March 1770, and that you may know the Reasons which have induced such Disallowance, I send you inclosed, for your own Information, Copies of the Representations of the Board of Trade upon the said Laws.

I am &ca
HILLSBOROUGH

Burlington Academy, founded in 1752.-Ib., 328-9, 332-3-4-5. He probably died in 1796, at Burlington. His wife was Martha. They had children: 1, John, licensed as an attorney in 1789, and settled at Woodbury, New Jersey, where he enjoyed a large practice, and where he died. -Vroom's Sup. Ct. Rules, 95; Alden's Epitaphs, No. 583; Hist. Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland Counties, 131; Mickle's Gloucester, 2d ed., 71. 2, James, born at Burlington, October 1, 1781; baptized in St. Mary's Church, November 14, 1781; studied law 1784-6 with his brother John at Woodberry, in deference to his father's desire, and on the latter's decease entered the navy in 1796, winning in his chosen sphere an imperishable renown as one of the most gallant of naval heroes, even though cut off at the early age of 32 in his disastrous fight with the Cheaspeake against the British frigate Shannon.—Mickle, 71; Hist. Collections of New Jersey, 96; Alden, 583; Hills, 319. 3, A daughter of John Brown Lawrence married Michael Kearny (son of Philip Kearny, an eminent Perth Amboy Lawyer, by his wife Isabella, daughter of Chief Justice Robert Lettis Hooper, of Trenton).- Whitehead's Perth Amboy, 91. This meagre sketch has been given with a view to distinguishing between the numerous John Lawrences who figure in the annals of New Jersey, 1775-83, to the great bewilderment of the student of that period in the history of the State. Upon the representation of the Board of Trade, June 27, 1771, Mr. Lawrence was appointed by order of the King in Council July 19, 1771, to be of the Council of New Jersey.-N. J. Analytical Index, 422-3. He sat with that body until its dissolution in November, 1775.– Minutes. [W. N.]

Letter from the Earl of Hillsborough to Gov. Franklin, relative to the complaint of Mr. Hatton, and to the obstinacy of the Assembly in still refusing to provide for the necessities of the King's troops.

[From P. R. O. America and West Indies, Vol. 176 (194).]

WHITEHALL July 19th 1771.

Sir,

Gov! Franklin.

I have received and laid before the King Your dispatches N 30. & 31.

The Examination at the Council Board into the complaint exhibited by M Hatton appears to me to have been conducted with great Attention and Impartiality, and the inclosed Extract of M Pownall's letter to M Robinson of this day's date will inform you of the Communication I have made to the Treasury Board of the Minutes of that Council, and of the other Papers inclosed in your dispatch No 30.

The Obstinacy of the Assembly, in persisting in their Refusal to provide the King's Troops with the Necessaries required by Act of Parliament, is matter of very serious Consideration; and their Conduct on this Occasion is the more reprehensible as it appears evidently from your Representation of the State of the Colony, and of its Finances, that there is not the least Colour for the Pretence on which they ground their Refusal.

The Asserting therefore that the Colony is not of Ability to make any further Provision, is adding Mockery to Insult, and their refusal can be considered in no other light than that of a wilfull Contempt for the Authority of Parliament; You will doubtless

therefore, at their next Meeting, renew your Endeavours to persuade them to recede from so unjustifiable a Disobedience to the Terms of the Mutiny Act, and should you not succeed, it will be my Duty to advise with the rest of The King's Servants upon the Measures it may be proper to pursue.

The King approves of your Determination not to dissolve the Assembly upon this Occasion, & of your proroguing them in the manner you mention, in order to give them time for due Consideration of their Conduct, which will I hope induce them to correct it.

I am &ca

HILLSBOROUGH

Letter from Mr. Pownall to John Robinson, relative to the Complaint of Mr. Hatton, Collector of the Customs at Salem.

[From P. R. O. America and West Indies, Vol. 257 (275).]

WHITEHALL July 19th 1771

Sir,

John Robinson Esq

I am directed by the Earl of Hillsborough to transmit to you the inclosed papers by which the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury will be informed of the steps his Lordship has thought fit to take in consequence of your Letter to me of the 13th instant so far as the papers transmitted therewith relate to the case of the Naval Officer of Rhode Island & the Complaints made by the Officers of the Customs of the Ill-treatment and Obstruction they have met with in that Colony and at Philadelphia.

With regard to the Complaint made by M' Hatton Collector of the Customs at Salem in New Jersey his

Lordship has not thought fit to take any Step thereupon, the whole of the Transaction of which M! Hatton complains, appearing to his Lordship by papers which have been received from the Governor of that Colony, & Copies of which I inclose, in a very different Light from that in which it is stated in the papers inclosed in your Letter to me.

Lord Hillsborough however desires you will assure the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that if they are not satisfied with the Result of the Examination at the Council Board of New Jersey into the Complaint exhibited by M Hatton against the Justices of the Peace, and with the Representation of this Matter in Governor Franklin's Letter to the Commissioners of the Customs at Boston of the 10th of April, & in the Attorney General's Letter of the 239 of February last, both which are very material, his Lordship will most readily concur with them in any further Measure they may recommend as necessary for enabling M' Hatton to execute his Office.

I am &c

POWNALL

Letter from Governor Franklin to the Earl of Hillsborough, relative to a dispute between the Governor and the Assembly, on the resignation of a member of the House (Mr. Ogden).

My Lord,

[From P. R. O. America and West Indies, Vol. 176 (194).]

BURLINGTON, July 20th 1771

Since my last I have been honoured with your Lordships Letter of the 4th of May (N° 30).-It gives me Pleasure to find that His Majesty has been pleased to approve of M: Coxe for supplying one of the Vacancies in the Council of this Province, and I shall be

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