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- A carpenter, proprietor, 1636-7. He was one of the early proprietors ofLancaster, where his youngest 4 children were probably born.
Lawrence Waters was a Proprietor at Watertown in 1636 and 1637. By hiswife Ann Linton he had six children born there.
A carpenter, he was one of three sent up, in 1645, by the grantees of theNashaway Plantation (later called Lancaster), to make suitablepreparation for their own coming. The proprietors assigned him a lot uponwhich he built a house, probably the second building erected by white menin Lancaster.
The first birth certified to be issued in the town of Lancaster, by RalphHoughton, was that of Joseph, son of Lawrence Waters, April 29, 1647. Thefirst attested death in the town was that of Rachel, infant daughter ofLawrence Waters, in March, 1649.
He planted the intervale between Penacoook and Still Rivers before 1647,a region then included in Lancaster.
On Jun 1, 1655 then of Lancaster, he sold to Robert Harrington, 3parcels of land in Watertown, deed signed 17 Jun 1668. He was aproprietor at Lancaster in 1658.
He became a freeman in 1663. After the massacre of 1676, we find him withhis wife, and Samuel with his wife and two children, seeking shelter inCharlestown, where Stephen became responsible to the authorities forthem. Lawrence Waters was then blind. He died December 9, 1687, inCharlestown, aged about eighty-five years, outliving his wife sevenyears.
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1602 - 1687 (85 years)