Division III

Progenitor: Cors Pieterszen (1612-1655)
Birthplace: Langeraar, the Netherlands
Current Y-DNA terminal haplogroup: I-BY13712
Also known as: Corson families of Staten Island, New York, and Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Division descendants: Descendants of Cors Pieterszen (table)

Cors Pieterzsen is stated to be of Dutch origins, although some have speculated the family was of French Huguenot descent. His wife was Tryntje Hendrickse of Dutch ancestry. Both lived in New Amsterdam. For reasons unknown, the children of one of their sons, Hendrick Corssen,  adopted the surname Vroom, which in Dutch can mean "brave, pious, kind or gentle". Sometimes "Vroom" is encountered after someone's surname as a description. Some Corsen descendants moved from Staten Island, New York, to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and left many descendants there.

Variations: CORSON, CORSSEN, CORSEN, CORSE, CORSON, CARSSEN, KORSSEN, KROESEN, CROESEN, VROOM

Maps:

• Birthplaces of Division III descendants born with the Corson surname or a variant:

Main reference works:

• The Corson Family: a History of the Descendants of Benjamin Corson, son of Cornelius Corssen of Staten Island, New York, by Hiram Corson, 1906.
• The Coursens: from 1612 to 1917 compiled from Ancient and Modern Records with the Staten Island Branch, by Percival Ullman, 1917
• "The Staten Island, New Jersey, Corson Family", Ch. IV-XXVIII of Three Hundred Years with the Corson Families in America, by Orville Corson, 1939, Vol. I, pp. 17-274.

Notable Division III Descendants:

	Rev. Robert Corson (1793-1878), itinerant Methodist minister in Canada		Hiram Corson, M.D. (1804-1896), doctor, advocate of abolitionism and women in medicine
	Hiram Corson (1828-1911), professor of literature, author		Joseph K. Corson, M.D. (1836-1913), Congressional Medal of Honor winner
	Trevor Corson (b. 1969), author

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