Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin

Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin (July 8, 1758 – October 3, 1838) was an American political poet in Revolutionary America and during the early United States.

Early life Hannah Lawrence was a daughter of John Lawrence and Anna Burling.

Hannah Lawrence came from a Quaker family, who had arrived in the New World in the 17th century and had settled on Long Island. was a successful merchant, whose ancestors held royal patents to Flushing and to Lawrence, Long Island. John Lawrence's great-grandfather was William Lawrence from St Albans, northwest of London. William Lawrence, at the age of twelve, sailed with his mother and siblings from London to Massachusetts, in 1635. Later, he received the rights to 900 acres of land in Vlissingen, New Amsterdam, corresponding to today's College Point and Flushing on Long Island. William Lawrence was a landowner, councilman, sheriff and judge in Queens County, NY. The Burling family came from Barking, today an eastern suburb of London. The Burlings were Quakers. They were persecuted in England and emigrated to America to escape.

The couple had nine children, seven of whom reached adulthood: Edward Lawrence, Henry Hamilton, Effingham, Anna Maria, Effingham Lawrence, Jacob, John Lawrence, Cornelia, Richard Lawrence. Elegy on an unfortunate Veteran (1775) The Wedding Day. Written on Sunday morning, the 13th of August 1780 To Delia Military Fame. A Sonnet.

The Shade of Montgomery (Quebec, October, 1780) Written on a Bust of Washington (August 24, 1785) George Washington - Born the 22nd February 1732 (Poem, New York, August 24, 1797) The slave (Time and Literary Piece Companion, New York, May 30, 1797) On the Necessity of the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (Time and Literary Piece Companion, New York, June 5, 1797) A tribute to the memory of Richard Lawrence who died of the prevailing epidemic (Newtown, October, 1798) Reflections on the death of General George Washington (New York, December, 1799)