Perhaps an Americanized spelling of Dutch Persoons,
Persoens, a patronymic from Middle Dutch persoon
‘parson’, probably denoting the servant of a parish priest, or
possibly an altered spelling of English Parsons.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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