Person:John Alling (7)

"John Alling, Esq., called also Recorder and Judge, was the second son of Roger Alling, 1st. He was the founder of a numerous and talented branch of the Alling family. He married Susanna Coe, daughter of John Coe of Stratford, and by her had nine children; one died young, and the other eight all married and raised families, estimable and honored in their day. He seems to have been more talented and eminent than even his father or brothers, having held numerous and important offices of honor and trust for many years.

Although he learned the trade of blacksmith from his father with his brother Samuel, 1st, he seems to have been much of a student, and was interested in the cause of education and in the prosperity of Yale College, having been its Treasurer from 1702 until his death in 1717. He was elected Deputy or Representative by the colony to the Court or Assembly for twenty terms, and his name is entered on the record John Allen until 1701, when, for the first time, it is spelled Alling, although I find his signature Alling at an earlier date.

In 1704 he was appointed by the Assembly the Judge of the County Courts and also the Probate Judge, and was annually reappointed until 1714, when Jonathan Low was appointed to succeed him in the County Courts, and in 1716 he became so disabled that he could not attend to the business, when the Governor and Council delegated Samuel Ells to act for him during his disability. While Judge he united over seventy couples in marriage. For a time he was himself a member of the Governor's Council, and on the Governor's Staff. In 1708 the Assembly put into his care 'a barrel of gunpowder with lead and flints answerable for the colony's use.'

In 1714 he deeded to his son Jonathan several tracts of land, and also 'all of his blacksmith tools of whatever sort,' and in the same year he also deeded to his sons Ebenezer and Stephen various other pieces of land in about New Haven.

An old slab in the Grove Street Cemetery reads: 'Here lyeth Interred / the body of the / Worshipful John / Alling, Assis't, who / died March 25, 1717, / Aged 70 years.'"^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Alling, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
   1:16.

   "John (Alling), bp 2 Oct 1647 (church record, First Congregational Society, New Haven), d 25 Mar 1717 (New Haven Vital Records); Gov.'s Assistant; …"

2. ↑ Allen, George P. A History and Genealogical Record of the Alling-Allens of New Haven, Conn: The Descendants of Roger Alling, First, and John Alling, Sen., from 1639 to the Present Time. (New Haven, Conn.: Press of the Price, Lee & Adkins Co., 1899)
   20-21.
3. ↑ Judge John Alling, in Find A Grave.