Appendix C. Part 1.

Who Was the Father of Isaiah1 Harrison, the Enigmatic Blacksmith of Long Island?[1]
Was It Rev. Thomas Harrison, a Minister at Virginia, England and Ireland, d. Dublin 1682?
Or Thomas Harrison, a Leader of the Bare Bones Parliament and a Regicide Executed in 1660?
Or the More Important Question for Stickler Historians: Who Did Isaiah1 Harrison Think His Father Was?
Comparing Traditions Based on Coats of Arms with Data Based on History and Y DNA
by Margery Boyden, Scudder Association Foundation Historian, with permission, © 2022

[1] Chapter One, “Isaiah Harrison, Sr., the Enigmatic Blacksmith, and His Long Island Roots: Why Was He at Smithtown in 1684, with Scudders from Huntington, Long Island, Three Years before His Supposed Arrival in America at Oyster Bay?” Scudder Family Historical & Biographical Journal, Scudder Association Foundation, volume 4, no. 1, (Spring 2022). Excerpt from Boyden, A Guidebook to the Records for Samuel and Lydia (Harrison) Stewart: New Perspectives from New Data and from Reviewing 100 Years of Collaborative Research, Part I, Long Island Roots and Relationships.

 


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