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John Laurance (sometimes spelled "Lawrence" or "Laurence") (1750 – November 11, 1810) was a delegate to the 6th, 7th, and 8th Congresses of the Confederation, a United States representative and United States Senator from New York and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New York.
This long overdue biography of English-born New York lawyer John Laurance (1760-1810) restores an important missing piece to the founding narrative. With verve and sweep, Keith Marshall Jones III lays bare the middling Cornish émigré’s passage to Federalist America’s governing inner circle.
This long overdue seminal biography of New York lawyer John Laurance lays bare his against-all-odds passage from immigrant cipher into Federalist America’s governing inner circle. Essential to the telling are five wartime years as General George Washington’s “courtroom Baron von Steuben” and battlefield father of the U.S. Army Judge ...
John Laurens (October 28, 1754 – August 27, 1782) was an American soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his criticism of slavery and his efforts to help recruit slaves to fight for their freedom as U.S. soldiers.
This long overdue biography of English-born New York lawyer John Laurance (1760-1810) res... Keith Marshall Jones III introduces his biography of John Laurance.
John Laurance: The Immigrant Founding Father America Never Knew. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2019.
Laurance, John. LAURANCE, JOHN. (1750–1810). Judge advocate general of the Continental army. New York. Born near Falmouth, England, in 1750, he moved to New York City in 1767; was admitted to the bar in 1772; and about two years later married Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander McDougall. When the province started raising Continental regiments ...
