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CHAPTEK XIII.
THE ALLISONS OF llOCKLAND COUNTY, N. Y.^
1625. 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. L, 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 £4
damages against Thomas Marshfield, in particular court,
Connecticut. In 1657 he was taxed in Hempstead for twent}'nine
acres. From the Hempstead, L. L, town records in
1658, Lawrence and John Ellison became sureties for the
good behavior of Lawrence's son-in-law and John's brotherin-law,
John Ellington. On Nov. 29, 1658, he had ten acres
ilam p;reatly. indebted for information to the " History of Rockland
County, New York," publislied in 1884 by J. B. Beers