A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 72
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] to Eastchester, cir. I(i89. On the r2th of ]\Lay, 1690, Isaac Law-rence was chosen by the inhabitants of this town, one of the pound-masters for the year ensning. In 1700, he appears to have been town treasurer, and in 1721 his name occurs in the list of the grand jurors for the county of Westchester. Isaac Lawrence died about 1730, leaving three sons, the eldest of whom was Isaac Lawrence, grandfather of the present Augustus Lawrence, Esq. This gentleman has for many years filled the office of justice of the peace for the town of Eastchester. The Lawrences of Westchester connty, New Jersey, and Long Island, descend from three brothers who emigrated from Holland to the colony of New Amsterdam in 1641. John, Wil-liam and Thomas Lawrence were originally from the county of Lancaster, England, and left their native country at the com-mencement of those pohtical troubles which preceded the rebel-lion, and death of Charles I."^ The Pinckney estate in this town originally embraced the pro-perties of Mr. Jesse Lyon, Joseph Disbrov^, Henry Slayman, Al-fred H. Duncombe, and Benjamin Underbill, Esq. The Pinckney residence, which stood a little to the south-west of Mr. Lyon's, appears to have been a favorite resort for officers