John Alling, Senior, and His Descendants: His origin and early history, or when he came to New Haven, are unknown, but he is supposed to have been born in England and to have come a few years later than Roger. His marriage is the first recorded of any Allen, or Ailing, in New Haven, and is as follows: John Allin married Elling Bradley. October 14, 1652. Roger had married there about ten years prior to this, but the record is not found. John was no doubt a relative of Roger; tradition makes him cousin, but the recorded evidence is wanting. If not related, it would be a wonderful coincidence that these two men, of the same name, should be intimate companions, naming five of their children alike, and were more closely associated in life as acquaintances and friends than we expect to find among those not of kin. So it would seem there can hardly be a doubt but the tradition that Roger and John were cousins, is true, and that it was a mutual agreement with them to change the English form of their name from Allen to Ailing. As they are the only known emigrants who thus spelled their name, it is pretty certain they were the progenitors of all the Allings in the United States.
