


A meetinghouse was erected on the site of the present Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville in the early 1700s. In 1698, Puritan settlers from Long Island and Connecticut came to Maidenhead and were granted land and established a Presbyterian church.

The township was named by the early Quaker settlers after Maidenhead, a Thames River village west of London. What is now Lawrence Township was originally formed as Maidenhead Township on February 20, 1697, while the area was still part of Burlington County in West Jersey on the eastern boundary of the Province Line (on the other side of which was East Jersey). As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 33,077, a decrease of 395 (−1.2%) from the 2010 census count of 33,472, which in turn reflected an increase of 4,313 (+14.8%) from the 29,159 counted in the 2000 census. The township is a regional commercial hub for central New Jersey. Located at the cross-roads between the Delaware Valley region to the south and the Raritan Valley region to the north, the township is an outer-ring suburb of New York City in the New York Metropolitan area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, while also directly bordering the Philadelphia metropolitan area and is part of the Federal Communications Commission's Philadelphia Designated Market Area. Justice Gorski retired effective January 31, 2012.Lawrence Township is a township in Mercer County, in the U.S. Justice Gorski was appointed by Judge Pfau as a Vice Chair of the Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics in June 2007. He received the Outstanding Jurist Award from the Erie County Bar Association in 1998 and the 2000 Award of Merit. Justice Gorski is a member of the Erie County and New York State Bar Associations and is a former member of the Statewide Pattern Jury Instruction Committee. He was elected to Supreme Court in 1989 and was appointed to the Appellate Division, Fourth Department by Governor Pataki on August 14, 2001. Additionally, he was the Law Clerk for U.S. From 1973 until 1980, he served as a Law Clerk to Erie County Court Judge and New York State Supreme Court Judge James L. He practiced in Buffalo, concentrating on negligence, products liability litigation, and labor relations related work. Gorski received his law degree from Georgetown University in 1962 and was admitted to practice later that year.
