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- Jonas Larroway, United Empire Loyalist, was born 1731 Schoharie Co. NY, was descended from the LeRoy dit Audy family who settled in New France (now Quebec) from France in 1668. The LeRoy surname underwent great changes, becoming LeRoy dit Audy or Ody in New France, and Laraway or LeRoy in the United States. Jonas Larraway married in 1754 in Schoharie NY to Elizabeth (Betsy) Muller, daughter of Johannes Nicholas Muller and Maria Dorothea Wuest, a Palatine line.
Jonas fought in Butler's Rangers during the American Revolution and settled at Niagara, Ontario in 1783. (© by Lorine McGinnis Schulze, OliveTree Genealogy, edited)
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