Excerpt from A Genealogical Memoir of the Family of John Lawrence: Of Watertown, 1636, With Brief Notices of Others of the Name in England and America The request is therefore made, that any further particulars, by which what has been hereby commenced may be corrected and improved, may be furnished for the use of those who have been laboring to compile the history of this family and put it into such a form that, concerning those who are not it may be as though they were; while they who shall be will not be left entirely ignorant of those who have been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.