Lawrence * Damron Sr.

  General Notes:

Lawrence Damerson, with his sons Bartholomew, George, and Thomas,
settled in Northumberland Co., VA, some time before 1652. There is
little doubt (but no proof) that he belonged to the old Suffolk (England) family of
Damerons, but the specific relationships have not yet been determined

The following information has been taken from the "Genealogies
of Virginia Families", Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1981
(Vol. 1). Much of the information is also found verbatim in the
Dameron/Damron Genealogy compiled by Helen Foster Snow and published
in the 1950s.

The first of the name associated with the American adventure was
Captain John Dameron, who was commissioned Captain of the "Deuty" 23
DEC 1619, in the service of the Virginia Company in London. He was also
probably the same John Dameron, who accompanied Sir Ferdinand Gorges
in his voyages to the new world

Lawrence and Dorothy Dameron brought over nine servants and received
a land grant in Northumberland Co., VA, in 1652. They may have been one
of the Cavalier refugee families who came over at that time to the
Northern Neck which was a refuge for the royalists after King Charles I
was beheaded in 1649 and a Commonwealth was established under Oliver
Cromwell and the Puritans. Their friends and neighbors on nearby
plantations were chiefly Cavalier refugees such as the Lees, ancestors
of Robert E. Lee, the Balls, of the family of George Washington's mother,
Mary Ball, and others.

Lawrence Dameron's name first appears in the county records 12 MAY
1652, in a patent for 342 acres located on Wicomico River, being for the
transportation of seven servants into the colony.
A second and later patent assigned to him was for five hundred acres on
the south side of Great Wicomico River, part land and part marsh being a
neck bounded easterly on the great Bay and westerly on the Creek. The
marsh land described in this deed of 1655 is still known as Dameron's
Marsh.
Eventually, he owned about 2000 acres, mostly in the Wicomico parish.
Here Lawrence Dameron settled with his wife Dorothy and their family.
They developed a plantation and became active in early community life.
Lawrence died in 1657, leaving an informative will. This will was
discovered relatively recently in a very old and badly damaged court
record book at Heathsville, VA, with parts of the leaves crumbled into
small bits.


Good site is the Damron Family Association
link to story about Lawrence Damron http://www.ddfa.org/lawrence.html

Lawrence's Will http://www.ddfa.org/lawrwill.htm




Thomas Dameron, a grandson of Lawrence, the immigrant, erected early
in 1700 a beautiful brick residence near the original home site which is
yet known in Northumberland County as the "Brick Walls."

  Noted events in his life were:

• Baptism, Apr 1615, St. Clements Parish Ipswich, Suffolk, England. No documents to support this.

Lawrence married Dorothy. (Dorothy was born about 1620 and died about 1691.)