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14 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, 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.