Martha Manning Laurens
(1757-1781)
BIRTH
January 8, 1757
PLACE
NAME
Martha Weatherell Manning
DEATH
November 1781
PLACE
FAMILY
HUSBAND
John Laurens
(1754-1782)
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DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Martha Manning Laurens was the daughter of a merchant connected to Henry Laurens’s business and the wife of his son John. She married John in London in October 1776 while pregnant with their daughter, Frances Eleanor. John soon sailed to join the American Revolution, leaving Martha in England, and never saw his child. Martha died in France in 1781 while seeking to rejoin him. Accounts differ on her exact birth and death dates, which remain unsettled here.
EARLY LIFE
Martha Manning Laurens was born on Jan 8, 1757. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Martha Manning Laurens is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Martha Manning Laurens died on Nov 1781. Martha Manning Laurens was the daughter of a merchant connected to Henry Laurens’s business and the wife of his son John. She married John in London in October 1776 while pregnant with their daughter, Frances Eleanor. John soon sailed to join the American Revolution, leaving Martha in England, and never saw his child. Martha died in France in 1781 while seeking to rejoin him. Accounts differ on her exact birth and death dates, which remain unsettled here. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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