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Lawrence Southwick

Lawrence Southwick

Male Abt 1600 - 1660  (~ 60 years)

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  • Name Lawrence Southwick  [1] 
    Born Abt 1600  Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • based on marriage in 1623
    Gender Male 
    Reference Number 7356 
    Died 1660  Shelter Island, Suffolk, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7356  FelsingFam
    Last Modified 16 Feb 2024 

    Family Cassandra Burnell,   b. Abt 1598 
    Married 5 Jan 1623/24  Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. John Southwick,   b. 1620  [natural]
     2. Josiah Southwick,   b. 20 Mar 1628/29, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1693  (Age 63 years)  [natural]
     3. Mary Southwick,   b. 1632, New England, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     4. Provided Southwick,   b. 1634, New England, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1640  (Age 6 years)  [natural]
    +5. Daniel Southwick,   b. 1637, New England, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Dec 1718, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)  [natural]
    +6. Provided Southwick,   b. Dec 1641, New England, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
    Last Modified 16 Feb 2024 
    Family ID F2128  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - Abt 1600 - Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 5 Jan 1623/24 - Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 1660 - Shelter Island, Suffolk, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Essex Antiquarian vol6 p152 southwick house    		Essex Antiquarian vol6 p152 southwick house
    Date:4/14/2019 2:24:32 PM
    The attempted sale into slavery of Daniel and Provided Southwick, son of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick. By Gov. Endicott an    		The attempted sale into slavery of Daniel and Provided Southwick, son of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick. By Gov. Endicott an
    drawing from The genealogy of the Descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick of Salem by James M Caller And Mrs. M.A. Ober
    Essex Antiquarian vol 6 p151    		Essex Antiquarian vol 6 p151
    Date:4/14/2019 2:24:23 PM
    American Genealogist, The (2)    		American Genealogist, The (2)
    Date:4/14/2019 4:46:08 PM
    NEHGS NEXUS_ New England Across the United States    		NEHGS NEXUS_ New England Across the United States
    Date:4/14/2019 3:08:55 PM
    American Genealogist, The (3)    		American Genealogist, The (3)
    Date:4/14/2019 4:46:08 PM
    Essex Antiquarian vol6 p100    		Essex Antiquarian vol6 p100
    Date:4/14/2019 2:38:16 PM
    NEHGS NEXUS_ New England Across the United States vol5 p96    		NEHGS NEXUS_ New England Across the United States vol5 p96
    Date:4/14/2019 2:58:57 PM
    NEHGS NEXUS_ New England Across the United States vol13 p210    		NEHGS NEXUS_ New England Across the United States vol13 p210
    Date:4/14/2019 2:35:08 PM
    American Genealogist, The    		American Genealogist, The
    Date:4/14/2019 4:46:08 PM
    American Genealogist, The (4)    		American Genealogist, The (4)
    Date:4/14/2019 4:46:08 PM
    American Genealogist, The (1)    		American Genealogist, The (1)
    Date:4/14/2019 4:46:08 PM

  • Notes 
    • from wikipedia:
      Lawrence and Cassandra were married 25 January 1623/4 at Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England.[1][2] Along with their four surviving children, John, Josiah, Mary, and Daniel, the Southwicks emigrated to Salem, Massachusetts, sometime between mid-1637 and early-1639 when they were admitted to the First Church in Salem.[3][4] Lawrence was one of the first glassmakers in America, and practiced his craft in the part of Salem now known as Peabody, which was the first glass manufacturing district in America.[5] Lawrence left the industry in 1642,[6] and turned his attention to animal husbandry at which he was very successful.[7]

      Persecution as Quakers
      In 1657 the Southwicks were put in jail for hosting two visiting Quaker preachers, John Copeland and Christopher Holder. Lawrence Southwick was found to be a member of the First Church of Salem and was released to be dealt with by the leaders of that church. Cassandra remained in jail for seven weeks and was fined forty shillings for possessing a paper written by their two visitors. The paper was considered heretical by Governor John Endicott and others.

      In 1658 the Southwicks and their son Josiah were put in jail for twenty weeks for being Quakers.

      In 1659, the two youngest of the Southwick's children, a daughter named Provided Southwick and a son named Daniel Southwick, were sentenced to be sold as slaves in the Barbadoes for unpaid fines - fines related to their being Quakers. The sentence was not carried out, however. The entire family went to Shelter Island, New York together.

      In 1660 Lawrence and his wife Cassandra died within three days of each other on Shelter Island.

      Legacy
      A plaque in Southwick Hall at University of Massachusetts Lowell commemorates "Royal Southwick, Lowell's anti-slavery Quaker senator and manufacturer and a descendent of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick who were despoiled, imprisoned, starved, whipped, banished from," Massachusetts Bay Colony "and persecuted to death in the year 1660 for being Quakers."

  • Sources 
    1. [S367] Essex Antiquarium, Vol 6 P151.
      Essex Antiquarian vol 6 p151      		 Essex Antiquarian vol 6 p151
      Date:4/14/2019 2:24:23 PM



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