James LAURENSON

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1. +Hannah LAURENSON

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[4723] The family name has many alternate spellings, but seems to have normalized to
"Larison". A colorful tale is told that James and John were Danish nobles on the
run from their enemies, and eventually fled to America. This unlikely tale is told in
even more unlikely form in Cornelius Wilson Larison's "The Larisun famili",
which is written in Dr. Larison's own alphabet.

"The Annals of Newtown in Queens County, New-York"
James Riker
New York: D. Fanshaw, 1852
"Jonathan, another son, remained at Newtown, m. Hannah, dau. of Jas. Lauronson"

"A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England"
James Savage
Pub. Boston, 1860-1862
"LAURENSON, JAMES, and JOHN, Newtown, L. I. 1686, were prob. of Dutch descent."

"New England Marriages Prior To 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey,
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"LAURENSON, James & _____ [?SAWTELLE]; ?Newtown, LI"