 Lawrence was an ancestor of the first American president, George Washington, and the joint arms of the two families - the famous stars and stripes of Washington's signet ring and the American flag - appear in memorials at Steeple and Affpuddle.Creech Grange was sold to Nathaniel Bond in 1691, and the family still hold their Purbeck estates.It was Thomas Bond who in Stuart times laid out the famous London Street over fields of swamp and refuse tips and lost a fortune.