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GEORGE S. ALLISON, OF HAVERSTRAW, N. Y. 269
N. Y„ and married Sarah Marks of that place. She was the
daughter of George Marks. Mr. Allison lived on Manhattan
island, later at the New Dock, N. J., and subsequently
removed to Hackensack Township, N. J., and located beneath
the Palisades, near Englewood.
CHILDREN.
1823.
1824.
Evander Allison,' res. Ft. Lee, N. J.
Harriet Allison.'
1825. James Allison.'
1826.
'
William Henry Allison (1892), res. 1827.
Englewood, X. J.
Edward Allison.'
1828. Racliel Allison.'
1829. George Suffern Allison,^ [1735] (Peter,^ Joseph,*
He was born in New York, N. Y.,
John,3 John,2 Lawrence ^).
Jan. 15, 1792. He married, Oct. 28, 1818, Hannah, daughter
of Jonas and Mary (Burns) Brewster, of Haverstraw,
Rockland Co., N. Y. She was born July 13, 1794, and died
in Haverstraw, Sept. 2, 1867. He died there Aug. 27, 1884.
Mr. Allison passed his early life in the city of New York.
In the last war with Great Britain he took an active part,
and in 1812 was an officer in Colonel Washburn's regiment,
and was stationed at Sandy Hook. When hostilities had
ceased he removed to Haverstraw upon the invitation of his
grandmother, who was occupying the old Allison homestead,
which had been left to her by her husband. Soon afterward
she purchased land in North Haverstraw, now Stony Point,
where his residence stood, occupied by his, son Brewster J.
Allison, in 1892. This land was owned by Wandell Mace,
who was anxious to sell and move to what was then the
"West," now the central part of the state of New York,
" where 100 acres of good land could be bought for
fifty dol-
lars."
The first business of Mr. Allison was to keep a small store
and furnishing goods needed in a country neighborhood.
By marriage and by purchase he became the owner of a large
tract of timber land, and he connected with his mercantile
business that of wood and lumber. He afterward purchased
a tract of farm land adjoining his homestead, and carried on
quite an extensive farm in connection with his other enterprises.
The brick-making business soon gave him a wider
field for the exercise of his powers, and this, with the rapid
advance in the value of real estate, increased his wealth to
such an extent that he became one of the wealthiest men of
the county. In 1829 he was elected a member of the assem-