WILLIAMSON Capt. William; d. Somerset Co. 1785 A few yards south of the Union schoolhouse, where Martin Johnson lives, in 1766 was the house of William Williamson, commonly called Captain Williamson. The first of that name, of whom we read in this section, was a Lawrence Williamson, who, with his wife, Sarah, were members of the Dutch church at New Brunswick at its organization in 1717, and in which he was an elder in 1719. In what part of the congregation he lived is not known. There was also a William, an elder there in 1750. There was a Jacobus living in the neighborhood of Ten- Mile Run in 1735, and a William in this section, who had several children baptized in the old Six-Mile Run church at the brook, at an early date. Whether or they were connected with the William named above is not known.... A tradition in the Williamson family states that the Captaiin's father's name was William, and that he owned an immense tract of land, extending from the Millstone river to Lawrences' brook, contain [sic, containing] several thousand acres... The Captain died in 1785. Source: "Franklin Township Notes," Somerset County Historical Quarterly Q. Was Capt. William Willamson the son of Willem-1 Willemsen and Mayke Wyckoff or... Q. Was Capt. William Williamson a descendant of Willem-1 Davidszen, like Lawrence Williamson? Could his father, William, been an otherwise unknown son of Willem-1 Davidszen? See Fred Sisser III's series of articles on the "Van Neste Family" in the Somerset County Genealogical Quarterly, especially 4:1 [March 1986]; 266-268). Perry Streeter (perry@streeter.com) Canandaigua, New York USA http://www.perry.streeter.com