Person:Alexander Allyn (2)

Alexander Allyn
b.1659 Scotland
  • HAlexander Allyn1659 - 1708
  • WMary Grant1674 - 1703
m. 21 Sep 1693
  1. Alexander Allyn1695 -
  2. Mary Allyn1702 -
m. 21 Dec 1704
  1. Fitz John Allyn1705 - 1734/35
Facts and Events
Name[2] Alexander Allyn
Gender Male
Birth? 1659 Scotland
Marriage 21 Sep 1693 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Grant
Marriage 21 Dec 1704 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Elizabeth Allyn
Will[3] 7 Aug 1708 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death[1][2] 19 Aug 1708 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Probate[3] 13 Sep 1708 Will proven
Probate[3] 5 Nov 1708 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesInventory Taken £2706- 04-02.

Will and Probate

In his Aug. 7, 1708, will (and Aug 16th codicil), among those named are: "my wife Elizabeth"; "my youngest son Fitz John"; "son Alexander"; "my son John"; "my daughter Mary"; "my father-in-law, John Cross"; "my sister-in-law, Abigail Grant, now wife of Doctor Mather"; "my two brothers, William Allin and Robert Allin, living in Scotland"; "my mother-in-law, Mary Cross"; "Sarah Grant, daughter of Thomas Grant, which now lives with us". He asks his executors to be "overseers to my three children, Alexander, John and Mary, and I leave my son Fitz John with my dear and loveing wife Elizabeth" S3

References
  1. Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1638-1925
    Bk II p. 80.

    "Mr. Alexander Allin dyed August ye 19th 1708"

  2. 2.0 2.1 Cummings, David L., "Alexander Allyn of Windsor, Connecticut", in The Connecticut Nutmegger. (East Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Society of Genealogists)
    26:35, 1993.

    Alexander Allyn(1) was born 1659 and died in Windsor, Conn. 19 August 1708 age 49. He married at Windsor 21 September 1693 Mary Grant who was born 26 Apr 1675 at Windsor and died 6 August 1703 age 29.

    He married for the second time 24 December 1704 Elisabeth Allyn daughter of Hon. John, Secretary of colony of Hartford, Conn., and his first wife, Anne Smith. She was b. 1 Dec. 1669. Elisabeth married for the second time 13 July 1710 (or 23 Jan. 1711) John Gardiner of Gardiner's Island, L.I.. Alexander Allyn (1) was a merchant in Windsor.

  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Alexander Allin, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    2:7-9.

    Allin, Alexander, Windsor. Died 19 August, 1708. Invt. £2706-04-02. Taken 5 November, 1708, by Timothy Thrall and Daniel White, and was apprised by us at the value thereof in silver money reckoned at 15 pennyweight or 8 shillings the ounce. Additional invt. of £135-15-00, taken 14 March, 1726-7, by Major Wolcott and Capt. Samuel Mather, executors; also, 80 acres of land in Suffield, valued at £110, taken 2 March, 1722-3, by Daniel White and Samuel Strong. Will dated 7 August, 1708.