John Allyn, Colonel

Male 1630 - 1696  (~ 66 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  John Allyn, Colonel was christened 23 Feb 1630, Braunton, Devon, England (son of Matthew Allyn and Margaret Wyatt); died 11 Nov 1696, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried Nov 1696, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

    Notes:

    !Source: "The Ancestry of Margaret Wyatt, Wife of Matthew Allyn of
    Braunton in Devon(shire), and later of Windsor in Connecticut", by
    Charles Knowles Bolton (1867-1950) Microfilm in the SLC Family
    History Library. Call number of original: CS71.143 1898a Microfilm
    84/7860

    !Savage - Genealogical Dictionary of N.E.
    !Goodwin - Genealogical Notes.

    !Positions held (as cited on above):
    !"cornet of troop, 1657-8; town clerk of Hartford 1659-96; deputy 1661;
    magistrate 1662 etc.; Secretary of Connecticut 1663-1665, 1667-95;
    c(ommissioned?) Nov.11,1696, Lieutenant Colonel."

    !Emigrated from England on ship "CHARLES. Sailed from Barnstaple
    (Devonshire) April 10 (1632) and arrived June 5 at Boston, `with about
    twenty passengers, all safe and in health'. (Winthrop: "Journal", vol I, p
    81) The (Matthew Allyn family) probably came in this ship, as they came
    this year.." ("Planters of the Commonwealth", Charles Edward Banks,
    Geneological Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1984)

    !Death: "Register of Pedigrees & Services of Ancesters", The Society of
    Coloniel Wars in the State of Connecticutt, Hartford, CT, 1941, pg 683.

    !Buried in the Center Church graveyard in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.
    !Died 6 or 11 Nov. 1696.

    !"Maternal ancestry of Charles Whiting MacNair", by Hannah Louise
    MacNair. (see p. 73 for death date)

    !Married (2) Hannah Lambertson after 1675; she was the widow of
    Samuel Wells.

    !Browning, Charles, "Some Colonial Dames of Royal Descent".

    !see my Whiting and Allyn files.

    !Source of death date: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of
    Connecticut. Register of pedigrees and services of ancestors. (Hartford,
    Conn. : The Society, 1941). p. 573

    !!McCormick - Hamilton - Lord - Day ancestral lines. US/CAN 929.273
    M137me
    !from Brampton, devonshire, England, p. 671

    !Barbour, Lucius B. Families of early Hartford, Connecticut. pub. 1977.
    US/CAN 974.63 D2b, p. 6-7

    John married Ann Smith 19 Nov 1651, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. Ann (daughter of Henry Smith and Ann Pynchon) was born 9 Nov 1640, Dorchester, Dorset, England; died Bef 1675, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Anna Allyn was born 18 Aug 1654, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died 3/03 Mar 1734/1735, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried , Center Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
    2. Mary Allyn was born 3 Apr 1657, of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died 14 Dec 1724.
    3. Margaret Allyn was born 29 Jul 1660, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died 6 Nov 1730, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
    4. Rebecca Allyn was born 2/02 Mar 1664/1665, of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
    5. Martha Allyn was born 27 Jul 1667, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died 15 Sep 1732, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
    6. Elizabeth Allyn was born 1 Dec 1669, of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

    John married Hannah Lamberton Aft 1675. Hannah was born Abt 1630. [Group Sheet]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Matthew Allyn was born 15 Apr 1605, , , England; was christened 17 Apr 1605, Braunton, Devon, England (son of Richard Allyn and Margaret Wyatt); died 1/01 Feb 1670/1671, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

    Notes:

    !Identified from "The Ancestry of Margaret Wyatt, Wife of Matthew Allyn
    of Braunton in Devon, and later of Windsor in Connecticut", by Charles
    Knowles Bolton (1867-1950), Microfilm 84/7860 (copy in SLC Family
    History Library), call number of original: CS71.143 1898a

    !"Referred to in Lechford's Note-Book as "nup.de Bramton in com Devon."
    Of Cambridge, Mass, 1632. Representative to General Court 1636. Moved
    to Hartford 1637. Owned 110 acres. Excommunicated by the church in
    Hartford (Memorial Hist. Hartford Co.,1:227). Deputy from Windsor, Conn.
    1648, 1657. Assistant 1658-1667. Commissioner to the United Colonies
    1660, 1664." Copied from above source.

    !Emigrated on the ship "CHARLES. Sailed from Barnstaple (Devonshire)
    April 10 (1632) and arrived June 5 at Boston, `with about twenty
    passengers, all safe and in health' (Winthrop, Journal, vol I, p 81). The
    (Allyn family) probably came in this ship, as they came this year.."
    ("Planters of the Commonwealth" by Charles Edward Banks, Geneological
    Publishing Co., Baltimore)

    !Matthew Allyn was one of the original founders of Hartford CT, his name
    being inscribed on the East Side, 5th from the top, of the Founder's
    Monument, Hartford, CT. The map copied in "Geneology of the Descendents
    of Thomas Lord" pg 6, "Hartford in 1640" shows Matthew Allyn's land on
    the NW corner of platted Hartford.

    !"Maternal ancestry of Charles Whiting MacNair", by Hannah Louise
    MacNair. (for marriage date see p. 80)

    !Marriage = LDS 184643, 184644, batch A184643

    !Sources quoted in Dorothy Harding, The founders' monument at Hartford,
    Connecticut,... (see Allyn file):
    !C.E. Banks, Planters of the Commonwealth (1960), p. 98
    !Colonial Recs. of Conn. (see indexes in v. I and III)
    !Ernest Flagg, Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England, p.
    267-8
    !Nathaniel Goodwin, Genealogical Notes, p. 56
    !D.L. Jacobus and E.F. Waterman, Hale, House and Related families, p. 72
    !C.W. Manwaring, Digest of Early Conn. Probate Recs., v. I p. 171-2, 395-6,
    v. II p. 115-6, v. iii, p.114-5
    !Memorial Hist. of Hartford Co., v.I p. 227-8
    !New Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg., 12:331
    !James Savage, Genealog. Dict. of First Settlers of New Engl, v. I, p.143,
    4, 114
    !H.R. Stiles, Ancient Windsor, v.II, p.27-9
    !Albert Welles, Births, Marriages and Deaths ... Hartford, etc., p. 22

    !Matthew Allyn is listed on the founders' monument in Hartford.

    !a representative to the general court of Mass. 1636.

    !deputy and assistant in the Connecticut Colony, 1648-67
    !a commissioner to the United Colonies, 1660, 1664

    !Browning, Charles, "Some Colonial Dames of Royal Descent".

    !see my Whiting file.

    !Weis, Frederick, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists : Who came to New
    England between 1623 and 1650."

    !Allyn/Allin

    !Barbour, Lucius B. Families of early Hartford, Connecticut. pub. 1977.
    US/CAN 974.63 D2b, p. 6

    Matthew married Margaret Wyatt 2/02 Feb 1626/1627, Braunton, Devon, England. Margaret (daughter of John Wyatt and Frances Chichester) was born 1607, Braunton, Devon, England; died 12 Sep 1675, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Margaret Wyatt was born 1607, Braunton, Devon, England (daughter of John Wyatt and Frances Chichester); died 12 Sep 1675, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

    Notes:

    !Source: from "The Ancestry of Margaret Wyatt, Wife of Matthew Allyn of
    Braunton in Devon, and later of Windsor in Connecticut" by Bolton,
    Charles Knowles, 1867-1950, microfilm 84/7860 , call number of
    original: CS71.143 1898a.

    !Emigrated from England aboard the ship "CHARLES. Sailed from
    Barnstaple (Devonshire) April 10 (1632) and arrived June 5 at Boston,
    `with about twenty passengers, all safe and in health' (Winthrop:
    "Journal", vol I, p 81). The (Matthew Allyn-Margaret Wyatt family)
    probably came in this ship, as they came this year.." ("Planters of the
    Commonwealth", Charles Edward Banks, Geneological Publishing Co.,
    Baltimore, 1984)

    !Source 2: "Register of Pedigrees & Services of Ancestors", The Society
    of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut. Hartford, CT, 1941. pgs
    884, 939.

    !Browning, Charles, "Some Colonial Dames of Royal Descent".

    !Weis, Frederick, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists : Who came to New
    England between 1623 and 1650."

    !Wyatt/Wyott

    !Source of death place: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of
    Connecticut. Register of pedigrees and services of ancestors. (Hartford,
    Conn. : The Society, 1941). p. 573

    !Barbour, Lucius B. Families of early Hartford, Connecticut. pub. 1977.
    US/CAN 974.63 D2b, p. 6.

    !Barbour says Margaret's mother was Nancy

    Children:
    1. Mary Allyn was born 10 Jan 1627, , , England; was christened 20 Jan 1627, Braunton, Devon, England; died 29 Jul 1689, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried Aug 1689, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
    2. 1. John Allyn, Colonel was christened 23 Feb 1630, Braunton, Devon, England; died 11 Nov 1696, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried Nov 1696, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
    3. Thomas Allyn, Captain was born Abt 23 Feb 1630, , , England; was christened Abt 23 Feb 1630; died 14 Feb 1695, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Richard Allyn was born Abt 1560, , Devon, England; died Bef 10 May 1610, Braunton, Devon, England.

    Notes:

    Source: "The Ancestry of Margaret Wyatt, Wife of Matthew Allyn of
    Braunton in Devon(shire) and later of Windsor in Connecticut" by Charles
    Knowles Bolton (1867-1950) Microfilm in SLC Family History Library.
    Call number of original CS71.143 1898a Microfilm 84/7860

    Quotations from source: "will Nov.29,1647, proved May 10, 1652. "To the
    poor of Branton 3 pounds to be distributed to their houses within ten
    days after my decease...To every servant in my house at the time of my
    death two shillings sixpence apiece." (Waters Register, 50:504) Son
    Thomas L5 (5 pounds sterling), Mary dau. of Thomas 20s(hillings), to
    Matthew's three childrren 20s each. Other bequests.

    Source:
    might have died in 1662.

    Richard married Margaret Wyatt 24 Sep 1583, Braunton, Devon, England. Margaret was born Abt 1564, of Braunton, Devon, England. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Margaret Wyatt was born Abt 1564, of Braunton, Devon, England.

    Notes:

    Source: same as that for Richard Allyn, husband. ("Ancestry of Margaret
    Wyatt..." by Bolton.)

    "Her connection with the Wyatts has not been recorded" -- source cited.

    "Maternal ancestry of Charles Whiting MacNair", by Hannah Crawford.

    see my Whiting file.

    Source:
    Wyott/Wyatt

    Children:
    1. Emmett Allyn was christened 19 Dec 1584, Braunton, Devon, England.
    2. Samuel Allen was born Abt 1588, Braintree, Essex, England; died , Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried 28 Apr 1648.
    3. Wilmot Allyn was christened 9 Jan 1590, Braunton, Devon, England.
    4. Thomas Allyn was christened 24 Dec 1597, Braunton, Devon, England; died 16 Oct 1688.
    5. Richard Allyn was christened 6 May 1601, Braunton, Devon, England, United Kingdom; died 1647.
    6. 2. Matthew Allyn was born 15 Apr 1605, , , England; was christened 17 Apr 1605, Braunton, Devon, England; died 1/01 Feb 1670/1671, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

  3. 6.  John Wyatt was born 7 Dec 1558, Braunton, Devon, England; was christened 27 Nov 1558, Braunton, Devon, England (son of Philip Wyatt and Jone Paty); died 22 Dec 1598.

    Notes:

    !"Admitted to the Inner Temple, 1576. (N.E. His. Gen. Register, April,
    1897)

    !Browning, Charles, "Some Colonial Dames of Royal Descent".
    !Weis, Frederick, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists : Who came to New
    England between 1623 and 1650."

    John married Frances Chichester Bef 19 Oct 1584. Frances (daughter of Amias Chichester and Jane Giffard) was born 7 Dec 1558, Arlington, Devon, England; died 5 Apr 1626, Braunton, Devon, England; was buried 5 Apr 1626, Braunton, Devon, England. [Group Sheet]


  4. 7.  Frances Chichester was born 7 Dec 1558, Arlington, Devon, England (daughter of Amias Chichester and Jane Giffard); died 5 Apr 1626, Braunton, Devon, England; was buried 5 Apr 1626, Braunton, Devon, England.

    Notes:

    !cited as being "4th dau. See N.E. Register April 1897".

    !Browning, Charles, "Some Colonial Dames of Royal Descent".
    !Weis, Frederick, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists : Who came to New
    England between 1623 and 1650."

    !see New England Historical Register, April 1897

    !Frances (Franny)

    Children:
    1. 3. Margaret Wyatt was born 1607, Braunton, Devon, England; died 12 Sep 1675, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  Philip Wyatt was born Abt 1500, of Braunton, Devon, England (son of John Wyatt); died 1592, Braunton, Devon, England.

    Notes:

    !cited in source as being "2nd son, Steward and town clerk of Barnstaple,
    Devon(shire) 1562-63.

    !"Maternal ancestry of Charles Whiting MacNair", by Hannah Crawford.

    !see my Whiting file.

    !IGI June 1991 gives birth date.

    Philip married Jone Paty 1526, , Devon, England. Jone (daughter of Jeffrie Paty) was born Abt 1505, Pilton, Devon, England; died 22 Apr 1588, Braunton, Devon, England. [Group Sheet]


  2. 13.  Jone Paty was born Abt 1505, Pilton, Devon, England (daughter of Jeffrie Paty); died 22 Apr 1588, Braunton, Devon, England.

    Notes:

    !IGI June 1991 gave birthdate.

    !First name = Jone or Jane
    !Surname = Paty or Patty

    Children:
    1. Hugh Wyatt was born Abt 1534.
    2. Nicholas Wyatt
    3. Philip Wyatt
    4. Adam Wyatt
    5. 6. John Wyatt was born 7 Dec 1558, Braunton, Devon, England; was christened 27 Nov 1558, Braunton, Devon, England; died 22 Dec 1598.

  3. 14.  Amias Chichester was born 28 Mar 1527, Arlington, Devon, England, United Kingdom; died 4 Jul 1577, Braunton, Devon, England, United Kingdom.

    Notes:

    !Source: "Ancestry of Margaret Wyatt..." by Charles Knowles Bolton,

    !Death: died about age 50 in 1577

    !"of Arlington, Devon(shire), 2nd son of 2nd wife"

    !Browning, Charles, "Some Colonial Dames of Royal Descent".

    !Amias/Amyas

    !Weis, Frederick, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists : Who came to New
    England between 1623 and 1650."

    !Baptism & endowment done before 1970

    Amias married Jane Giffard 1534. Jane was born Abt 1529, of Halsbury, Devon, England; died Bef 16 Apr 1596. [Group Sheet]


  4. 15.  Jane Giffard was born Abt 1529, of Halsbury, Devon, England; died Bef 16 Apr 1596.

    Notes:

    !Source: "Ancesters of Margaret Wyatt..."
    !Browning, Charles, "Some Colonial Dames of Royal Descent".
    !Weis, Frederick, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists : Who came to New
    England between 1623 and 1650."

    !will probated 16 April1596

    !Jane / Joan

    Children:
    1. 7. Frances Chichester was born 7 Dec 1558, Arlington, Devon, England; died 5 Apr 1626, Braunton, Devon, England; was buried 5 Apr 1626, Braunton, Devon, England.
    2. Bartholomew Chichester was born Abt 1564, of Arlington, Devon, England; died 28 Sep 1634.