Nathaniel Lawrence

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Nathaniel Lawrence (July 11, 1761 Newtown, Queens County, New York - July 15, 1797 Hempstead, then Queens, now Nassau County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician.

[edit] Life

He was New York State Attorney General from 1792 to 1795.

On February 16, 1796 he was appointed Assistant Attorney General for the First District, comprising Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Richmond and Westchester Counties, and died in office.

He married Elizabeth Berrien (1762-1800), and they had two daughters: Margaret Elizabeth Lawrence who married Philip Lindsley, and Elizabeth Lawrence who died in infancy.

[edit] Sources

  • [1] List of New York State Attorneys General
  • [2] Political Graveyard
  • [3] History of Queens County
  • [4] Lawrence genealogy
  • Google Book The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
Preceded by
Morgan Lewis		 New York State Attorney General
1792 – 1795		 Succeeded by
Josiah Ogden Hoffman
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