Lawrence was a schooner and the first privateer to be licensed out of the port of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The privateer was launched on 16 November 1756 during the French and Indian War. The ship was under the command of Captain Joseph Rouse with Robison Fort as first lieutenant, Andrew Gardner as mate. Gardner kept a ships log for six months as the ship sailed from Halifax to Bermuda. The log is one of the few to survive from this time period. The ship was named after Nova Scotia Governor Charles Lawrence. George E. E. Nichols. Notes on Nova Scotian Privateers. Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, for the year 1908,' Vol. XIII, pp. 111-152 Archibald MacMillan. The log of a Halifax privateer. 1920 Three Decks: British Privateer schooner 'Lawrence' (1756) The vessel participated in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759). On 21 April the Lawrence was battered and the only craft that was available to General James Murray. The schooner was sent eastward to hasten Lord Colville's fleet when it arrived in the river. Sir Gilbert Parker and Claude Glennon Bryan. Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France, p. 313
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