She had long auburn hair and reportedly she was "a great beauty" in her youth.
Quaker.
As a poetess in her late teens and early twenties, she risked her safety when she left leaflets about in Manhattan with her verses containing thinly veiled protests against the occupation of the British army of her native city during the Revolutionary War.
Despite her original Patriot sympathies, she was disowned by the Society of Friends (Quakers) on 5 October 1780 for her elopement with a non-Quaker, Lieutenant Jacob Schieffelin, an officer in the British army.
Mother of nine children.
In 1823, through monetary and property donations, Jacob and Hannah (Lawrence) Schieffelin established Saint Mary's Church at Manhattanville, the first free Episcopal church in America.
She had long auburn hair and reportedly she was "a great beauty" in her youth.
Quaker.
As a poetess in her late teens and early twenties, she risked her safety when she left leaflets about in Manhattan with her verses containing thinly veiled protests against the occupation of the British army of her native city during the Revolutionary War.
Despite her original Patriot sympathies, she was disowned by the Society of Friends (Quakers) on 5 October 1780 for her elopement with a non-Quaker, Lieutenant Jacob Schieffelin, an officer in the British army.
Mother of nine children.
In 1823, through monetary and property donations, Jacob and Hannah (Lawrence) Schieffelin established Saint Mary's Church at Manhattanville, the first free Episcopal church in America.
Inscription
[inscription on vault]
JACOB SCHIEFFELIN'S
VAULT
Family Members
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Edward Burling Lawrence
1756–1832
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Effingham Lawrence
1760–1800
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Mary Lawrence
1762–1762
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Mary Lawrence Embree
1763–1831
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Catharine Lawrence
1766–1834
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Jane Lawrence Livesay
1768–1854
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Phebe Lawrence
1770–1771
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Anna Lawrence Buckley
1772–1846
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John Burling Lawrence
1774–1844
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Cornelia Lawrence
1778–1778
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Phebe Lawrence
1778–1780
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Edward Lawrence Schieffelin
1781–1850
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Henry Hamilton Schieffelin
1783–1865
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Effingham Schieffelin
1785–1789
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Anna Maria Schieffelin Ferris
1788–1843
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Effingham Lawrence Schieffelin
1791–1863
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Jacob Schieffelin
1793–1880
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John Lawrence Schieffelin
1796–1866
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Cornelia Schieffelin
1798–1800
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Richard Lawrence Schieffelin
1801–1889
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