Thank you for the reply to my message of a year ago.
I am a direct descendant of Asa Lawrence and (probably of) Susan Martin of Wilmington,NY/Weathersfield,VT. All I know is the year of death of Asa (1866). His gravestone says only "Asa Lawrence" and underneath "DIED" with no date or age. :o) I doubt if there are cemetery records that give the date of his interment, but I am not sure of that. I doubt there are any government documents regarding Asa other than the Census records and the pay roster of his service at the Battle of Plattsburgh in September of 1814. There are several legal documents with regards his purchase of land and his selling his share of his father's estate to his brother Prescott in Weathersfied, VT. Since I wrote that message last year I have learned that Asa married a Susan Martin before moving to Wilmington, and I have come to believe that he is NOT from Scotland as our family tradition held. Hugh (my ancestor and Asa's son) died in Rockingham Vt. where he lived his final few years with his daughter Josephine, and I have a copy of the death certificate (1898) of Hugh which gives his parents name as Asa and Susan. This information was no doubt provided by his daughter Josephine Hindes, but it is possible that Susan was the only mother she ever knew and not her biological mother. There is a lot of confusion and controversy about Asa's wives. There is lore that one of his wive's died very young -- There are those that hold that Lucy Phillips was the mother of Jason and that he was her only child. Yet there are those who were quite sure that Hugh and Asa were full brothers and therefore had the same mother. The lore is that he had three wives and there are three names -- Lucy Phillips, Susan Martin (whom we are sure is one of them), and Susan Beggins. The female, Elisabeth, in the 1860 Cenus was no doubt his daugher not his wife. (The first digit of her age can be mistaken for a 7 but it is a 1 making her 19 not 79). We have reason to believe that the Asa who appeared in the Census of 1810 in Weathersfield, Vt with a child under ten (who could have been Jason) and a female between 16 and 25 (who could NOT have been Susan Martin who would have been 29 in 1810) is the Asa who was found in Jay-Wilmington in all the following Census records but was NOT found in the 1810 Cenus for Jay-Wilmington. I plan to travel to Weathersfield in late May or early June to see if I can learn the precise date of Asa's marriage to Susan Martin (which took place in Baltimore, VT), and also to see if there is record of death of a Mrs. Asa Lawrence who might have been the female in that 1810 Census record. I am not optimistic about finding either. The descendant's of Josephine Hindes, Asa's granddaughter, did not even know why there was a Lawrence gravestone in their family plot and thus never knew that they were distant relatives of some of the Lawrences in that region who are probably descendants of Asa's older brother Prescott. But I may visit them to help me locate Hugh's gravestone so that I can get a photo of it. If I find the homestead of his parents, John and Hanna, where Asa and his brother and sisters spent their youth, there may be some clues to his past there. I will post anything I find here. Sorry I could not be more helpful.