Category: Ancient History

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 […]

John Sterling Lawton – Medal of Honor Awardee Written by: Leo Lawton March 17, 2013 John Sterling Lawton, born May 13, 1858 was a descendant of Thomas Lawton who, along with his brother George, emigrated from Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England in 1639 to the newly forming colony on Rhode Island. John was born and raised in Bristol, Rhode Island. By the […]

A Little History Written by: Leo Lawton January 2, 2022 At the end of the Revolutionary War there were several factions yet at odds. Obviously Great Britain and the several Colonies were not at ease with each other. Another faction to be considered was numerous separate American Native tribes. The newly separated colonists were not too fond of those Natives […]

By: Leo Lawton Henry Tudor was born a Welshman in 1457, although he descended from both the Plantagenets and the House of Lancaster. Not yet thirty years of age, he slew King Richard III at the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, and soon made himself known as King Henry VII. He united his red rose of Lancaster with the […]