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LAWTON: Isaac Lawton or Leighton b. 1730, d. 1810, was a Quaker from Pennsylvania: he m. Mary Cranston d/o Samuel Cranston of Rhode Island: Mary died and was buried in Rhode Island: Isaac came to NB in 1783 with his three daughters and their aunt, Elizabeth Cranston as Loyalists: they settled in Saint John. Children mentioned: 1) Thomas Lawton: 2) Mary Cranston Lawton, the eldest daughter, married Paul Bedell: 3) Elizabeth Lawton m. Lewis DeBlois: Source: MC80/122 E.C. Wright’s Saint John ships and their builders, pg. 57: see also D.R. Jack’s Loyalist families of New Brunswick on microfilm F355, pages 250-251: see MC80/2902 Sharon Dubeau’s New Brunswick Loyalists:
a bicentennial tribute, 1 paragraph.