400 i. John
ELLISON.
800. Lawrence ELLISON died in 1664 in Hempstead,
Long Island, NY.
From "The History of the Alison or Allison Family" by Morrison. Lawrence
Ellison, the progenitor of this branch of the Allisons, according to "Thompson's
History of Long Island, N. Y.," was a Puritan, and came from Watertown,
Mass., to Weathersfield, Conn.; removed from there to Stamford, thence
to Hempstead, L. I., with other emigrants who accompanied Rev. Richard
Denton in 1644. Most of the early families of Hempstead were under his
leadership, and came from Hemel, Hempstead, England, about twenty miles
from London. Some, however, came from Halifax, County of York, whence Rev.
Richard Denton himself emigrated. The latter was for a time minister in
Coley Chapel, Halifax. These emigrants are supposed to have been a part
of the colony which came across seas with Robert Winthrop and Sir Richard
Saltonstall in 1630.
In June, 1643, Lawrence Ellison obtained a verdict of o4 damages against
Thomas Marshfield, in particular court, Connecticut. In 1657 he was taxed
in Hempstead for twenty-nine acres. From the Hempstead, L. I., town records
in 1658, Lawrence and John Ellison became sureties for the good behavior
of Lawrence's son-in-law and John's brother-in-law, John Ellington. On
Nov. 29, 1658, he had ten acres of land allotted him in Hempstead, L. I.
Lawrence Ellison was chosen townsman in 1659. Not long did this early settler
of Hempstead continue with the youthful settlement. He died in Hempstead,
in the North Riding, Yorkshire, Long Island, N. Y., in 1664. At the court
of sessions, held at Hempstead Jan. 2, 1665, letters of administration
on his estate were granted to his three sons, Richard, Thomas, and John
Ellison. This is the oldest record but one recorded in the surrogate's
office in the city of New York. In legal documents he signed his name by
"his mark."
"Immigrants to America before 1750" by Frederick Virkus, page 43: ALLISON (ELLISON), LAWRENCE (b. perhaps in Yorkshire, England - d. Hempstead, Long Island, 1664) came from Watertown, Massachusetts, to Wethersfield, Connecticut, thence to Stanford, Connecticut, finally with Reverend Richard Denton to Hempstead 1644; taxed for 29 acres there 1657; townsman 1659; married and had issue: 1-Richard (b. about 1620-d. Hempstead between 1682 and June 13, 1683 when will was proved) married probably in Braintree, Massachusetts about 1645, Thomasin _____; 2-Thomas (b. about 1622-d. Hempstead 1697), owned 270 acres 1696; married Martha _____, six children; 3-John (b. about 1624-d. after 1678 no will) was one of the founders of Hempstead; held offices of various kinds; married and had issue (of record): 1-John, Jr. (d. 1754) spelled name "Allison", large landowner in Orange (now Rockland) County, New York, ancestor of numerous progeny in Haverstraw and vicinity; the Barlow Genealogy credits John, Sr. With another son Thomas; 4-Catherine Ellison, married Henry Linnington; resided in Hempstead.
Children were:
400 i. John
ELLISON.
