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Life of Isaiah V. Williamson
lived at Beverly, and among his eight children was Mahlon, the father of Isaiah.
Mahlon Williamson was born on March 15, 1777, and he married Charity Vansant, who brought Dutch and French blood into the Williamson family. Charity's father, Cornelius, married Anne Larzelere, descendant of Jacques La Resaleur. Her grandmother was Charity Van Horn,[1] and her grandfather, Isaiah Vansant, for whom our hero was named Isaiah Vansant Williamson, who was born on February 4, 1803, was, like his father, one of eight children.
- ↑ The Van Horn family were almost original settlers of New Amsterdam, deriving their descent from Christian Barendtse, who came from Hoorn Brabdant. Charity's father, Peter Van Horn, was a vestryman in St. James P. E. Church at Bristol. The family had been living along Neshaminy Creek for many years before Charity married Isaiah Vansant, in 1732. The father of Isaiah Vansant was married at the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, to Rebecca Vandegrift, in 1707.
