Category: Ancient History

Written By: Leo Lawton Because Cheshire was wasted in 1067 it is nearly absolute that any landowning family in it were descendants of those who had came from Normandy with William the Conqueror. However, it is during the reign of Richard the Lionhearted between 1189 and 1199, that ancestors of a branch of a present day Lawton family are first […]

On the afternoon of 24 September 1664, Thomas Brownell was killed in an accident while on his way from his farm at the northwest end of Rhode Island to Portsmouth. (The Brownell’s, as was typical of most settlers at that time, probably did not live on their farm. They would also have had a small lot in Portsmouth where they […]

John and Mary Lawton Babcock George and his brother Thomas Lawton were among the earliest colonists on Aquidneck Island, later to become Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1639. In 1645 George and his wife, the former Elizabeth Hazard, had their third child a girl named Mary, their first two being sons. By 1662, when Mary was 17, John Babcock was working […]

The boy child was born on a cold November 14th in the year 1824. It was only ten days until Thanksgiving, but Job and Polly gave thanks that day that their fourth child and third son was born with ten fingers, ten toes, and all seemed to work as well as the lungs that were screaming after taking their first […]

Written by: Leo Lawton December 31, 2018 In the early 1600s it was within the rights of the English king to tax those shires that bordered on the sea for money to build ships during a time of war. In 1634 King Charles I placed a tax on all shires, inland as well as those bordering the sea. This was […]

Written by: Leo Lawton October 25, 2015 The daughter of a British soldier of Halifax, Yorkshire, who fought at Lexington and Concord in the colonial uprising, Anne was a confirmed open lesbian in her early teens, unheard of in her time. Her first love was Eliza Raine with whom she shared a room at boarding school. One of her next […]

Written by: Leo Lawton August 18, 2016 Around the year 1500 Richard Lawton was born, but I can’t tell you exactly where nor when. He grew to be a man near Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England, and married a local young lady whose surname was Purrier about the year 1520. As one might expect they had 5 known children. One was known […]

In days of old, when knights were bold, and muskets not invented, men would go, to meet their foe, with ready lance, contented. The Lawton Coat of Arms is described as: Argent on a fess between three cross-lets fitche sable, a cinquefoil of first, pierced of the second. Crest-A demi-wolf salient regardant argent, vulned in the back gule, and licking […]

Written by: Leo Lawton May 14, 2011 This is a history of England and the Lawton Family as they intermingle. In places you may find it a little humorous. It was meant to be. However, it is not that farcical, and is a correct history. History and Stuff 1 A fellow by the name of Henry Tudor was born a […]