ENOCH LAWRENCE, the seventh son of John Lawrence of Wisset, England, was born in Watertown, MA.

He married the widow RUTH Whiteny Shattuck on March 6, 1676-7, and had four sons. Soon after his marriage they moved to Groton, and settled in the north part of the town. He served the town as a surveyor of highways, tithing-man and fence-viewer. He was also chosen a "hog constable" in 1691.

On 24 August 1676, Enoch's family was given 3 pounds for their keep by the towne of Marblehead while Enoch was away fighting the Wampanago Indians during King William's War (1675-1676).  In the year 1702 the Provencial authorities granted him immunity from taxation, and a pension of three pounds sterling yearly, on account of physical disability contracted in King William’s war. He lived to extreme old age.

The following description of a portion of his real estate is from the third volume of Groton Land Records: --

"The Lands of ENOSH LAWRENCE: (I) His houslot Ninteen acres mor or Lesse Bonded east upon his own medow and on all other poynts by the highwayes[;] twelve and a half of this land he had of his Brother Zachary and Seavin acres he had of his Brother Joseph Lawrance."

ENOSH LAWRENCE had also twenty-five acres "near the Silver mine," ten acres at Babbitasset, and three acres and a half in Half-Moon meadow.