John Lawrence, Jr. was a Cornet in the Isle of Wight County Militia in 1702, and signed an address of loyalty to Queen Anne. In the Rent Rolls of 1704 he owned 175 acres in Nansemond County and 400 acres in Isle of Wight County. On 25 October 1706, John Lawrence, Mathew Whitfield, and Jacob Barnes witnessed the will of William Frizzell. On 9 February 1708, Mathew and Priscilla Whitfield on Nansemond County sold John Lawrence of Newport Parish in Isle of Wight County for 2,000 pounds of tobacco, their interest in 530 acres on Main Blackwater, patented on 5 June 1678, by John Lawrence, deceased father of Priscilla Whitfield, who gave it to his daughter Elizabeth Lawrence on Nansemond County, who bequeathed it to her sister, the said Priscilla, witnessed by Richard Exum and James Hunter.