Margaret Bruce Cheape

Pedigree

The Magna charta barons and their American descendants with the pedigrees of the founders of the Order of Runnemede deduced from the sureties for the enforcement of the statutes of the Magna charta of King John, by Browning, Charles Henry (Publication date 1898). Page 341-342. < Archive.Org >

• 19. William Lawrence, bapL at St. Albans, July 27, 1622, d. 1680. In 1645 ^^ was one of the patentees of Hampstead and Flushing, Long Island. He was a magis- trate of Flushing, 1655, and one of its largest land-owners ; was a member of the governor's council, 1 700 ; captain of a foot company, 1665 » ^^S^ sheriff, 1673 ; justice of the North Riding, 1675. He m. secondly, March 4, 1664-5, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith, and had by her :
• 20. JOSEPH LAWRENCE, of Flushing, b. 1665-8, commissioned ensign in 1684, d. April, 1759, m. 1690, Mary Townley (see the American Historical Register, February, 1896), and had :
• 21. Richard Lawrence, of Flushing, b. 1691, d. 1781, m. April 6, 1 7 1 7, Hannah, daughter of Samuel Bowne, and had :
• 22. John Lawrence, of Flushing, b, January 22, 1731, d. July, 1794, m. August 13, 1755, Ann Burling, and had:
• 23. Hannah Lawrence, b. July 8, 1758, d. October 3, 1838, m, August 16, 1780, Jacob Schieffelin, of New York, and had :
• 24. Richard Lawrence Schieffelin, of New York, b. November 9, 1801, d, November 21, 1889, m. August 3, 1833, Margaret H. McKay, and had :
• 25. George Richard Schieffelin, of New York City, b. July 27, 1836, a founder of the Order of Runnemede, and member of the Society of Colonial Wars. Mr. Schieffelin m. Julia M., daughter of Hon. Isaac C. and Matilda Dela- plaine, and had issue :
• I. Julia Florence Schieffelin, m. J. Bruce Ismay, of Liver- pool, England, and had :
  • 1. Margaret Bruce.
  • 2. Thomas Bruce.
  • 3. Evelyn Constance.
• II. Margaret Helen Schieffelin, m, Henry Graff" Trevor, of New York, and had :
  • 1. George Schieffelin.
  • 2. Margaret Estelle.
  • 3. Louisa Stephanie Stewart.
• III. Constance Schieffelin.
• IV. Dorothy Schieffelin.
• V. George Richard Delaplaine Schieffelin.
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