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Facts and Events
Information on Abraham LaRue
From "A genealogical and Personal History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Volume 1", by William Watts Hart Davis, John Woolf Jordan, pg. 181:
Abraham LaRoe, as both he and his brother Jacques came to spell their name, located on Staten Island, where he was still residing when he made his will in 1702, though prior to 1712, when it was first offered for probate, he had removed to the neighborhood of Hopewell, then Burlington County, later Hunterdon, and now Mercer County, New Jersey. His will mentions his children, but not by name. From contemporary records we learn that his sons were: Peter, Abraham, Daniel, David and Isaac. The witnesses to the will, William Tillyer, Francis L'Roe, Louis DuBois and William Grassett, all being either deceased or removed to such distance that their testimony could not be obtained, his will failed of probate and letters of administration were granted on June 14, 1712 to his widow Olshe (Alice) who had been named as executrix and almost sole legatee in the will. Olshe, Alshe of Alken, the wife of Abraham La Roe, was prior to her marriage to him, the widow of Joshua Creeson, youngest son of Pierre Cresson, a native of France who had come to America from Holland, where he had married a Dutch woman and located on Long Island.
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