Person:John Odlin (3)

John Odlin was on the 20 November 1637 list of Boston men to be disarmed as adherents of Anne Hutchinson [MBCR 1:211]. Shortly afterward he signed a renunciation of the petition which he and many others had signed against the proceedings of the court in this matter [WP 3:514].

On 10 June 1684 "John Odlin aged about eighty-two years" was one of four deponents who called themselves "ancient dwellers and inhabitants of the Town of Boston in New-england from the time of the first planting and settling thereof and continuing so at this day" and testified to the purchase of Mr. WILLIAM BLACKSTONE 's land by the town in 1634 [MHSC 2:4:202-03].

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   3:305.

   ODLIN... JOHN, Boston, one of the early sett. No. 139 on the ch. list, was a cutler or armorer, disfranchis. Nov. 1637 as an antinomian, by w. Margaret had John, b. 3 June 1635, d. soon aft. says the town rec. but in the ch. bapt. 28; Hannah, 9 Feb. 1638, d. soon aft. says the town rec. but by the ch. bapt. 4 Mar. foll.; Elisha, b. 1, bapt. 5 July 1640; John, again, 3, bapt. 13 Feb. 1642; Hannah, again, bapt. 29 Oct. 1643, a. 8 days old; and Peter, bapt. 12 July 1646, a. 9 days old (while town rec. asserts his b. 2 Aug.); and d. 18 Dec. 1685, aged 83. His will, of 6 Mar. 1685, pro. 11 Jan. foll. of wh. Elisha was excor. names the three s. and gr.ch. Hannah Bumstead, but whose d. she was is not kn.

2.   John Odlin, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1632 FIRST RESIDENCE: Boston OCCUPATION: Armorer, cutler. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Boston church as member #139 (as "John Audley") [BChR 14]; this would be in late 1632.
   BIRTH: About 1602 based on deposition of 1684 [ MHSC 2:4:202-03], but given the date of birth of his eldest child this may be an exaggeration.
   DEATH: Boston 18 December 1685 and buried the following day [ Sewall 88].
   MARRIAGE: By 1635 Margaret _____; last seen on 11 May 1667 when she joined in a deed with her husband, and may have died soon after since she was not a party to a deed nine months later. She may be one of the otherwise unidentified Margarets who joined Boston church during the early years.