Matthew Allyn

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]

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. 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.

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]

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