Isaac Garrison was born in 1732. He married Miss Ballinger (1732-1824) in 1768 in Surry County, North Carolina. They had four children. He married Martha in about 1784. They had four children. He died in 1836 in Ozark, Missouri. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Missouri, Oklahoma and California.

The ancestor of Isaac Garrison (ca. 1732-1836) came to the New World from France about 1686 and settled on Staten Island, New York. There were four generations of Isaac Garrison. The various families scattered throughout New York, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. They later moved into Kentucky, Iowa, South Carolina and elsewhere.

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