Matthew ALLYN

Male 1605 - 1671  (65 years)


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  • Name Matthew ALLYN 
    Born 15 Apr 1605  , , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 17 Apr 1605  Braunton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1/01 Feb 1670/1671  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7443  Patterson & Markham Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2019 

    Father Richard ALLYN,   b. Abt 1560, , Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 10 May 1610, Braunton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 50 years) 
    Mother Margaret WYATT,   b. Abt 1564, of Braunton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2999  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret WYATT,   b. 1607, Braunton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Sep 1675, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years) 
    Children 
     1. John ALLYN, Colonel,   c. 23 Feb 1630, Braunton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Nov 1696, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 66 years)
     2. Thomas ALLYN, Captain,   b. Abt 23 Feb 1630, , , England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Feb 1695, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years)
     3. Mary ALLYN,   b. 10 Jan 1627, , , England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Jul 1689, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years)
    Family ID F2998  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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