Bygones of Monroe:
JEREMIAH LAWRENCE
(Monroe Commerical, July 27, 1876, front page)
Death of Jeremiah Lawrence (August 10, 1833)
Died, in this village (Monroe), on the 5th inst., at the residence of his son-in-law, Jas. C. Garwood, Jeremiah Lawrence, Esq., in the 74th year of his age. Mr. Lawrence was a native of Connecticut, but removed to this place in 1817. He took an active part in the cause of his country during the revolutionary war; was for many years a civil magistrate in Massachusetts, and during most of the time of his residence here acted in a similar capacity, beside filling a variety of public trust, in our village and township.
(Monroe Commerical, July 27, 1876, front page)