Gallup, Elizabeth (b. 8 MAR 1662/63, d. 1726)

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Title: The Great Migration Begins
Author: Robert Charles Anderson
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Death: 1726 Westerly, Washington Co, RI

Note: John Gallup came to this country with his mother, 2 brothers and sister, Joan, in the "Griffin" arriving in Boston on 4 Sep. 1633. In 1643, he had married Hannah Lake, who had come to Boston with her widowed mother on the ship Abigail eight years before. The mother of the bride was Margaret [Reade] Lake, sister of Elizabeth Reade, wife of John Winthrop, Jr. This marriage allied Capt. John, Jr., closely with the topmost Puritan family in New England and it was this relationship that prompted him to apply for a house lot at New London.

May 22, 1674, the Court sitting in Hartford appointed John Gallup to go to Block Island "to attach Moween who had murdered a Pequit girl and bring him to the common goale to be confined in durance for a tryall." It is provoking not to write mission accomplished," but the colonial annals do not record the end of this adventure. Very serious Indian troubles were now brewing. Disturbing rumors that Phillip, chief of the Wampanoags and son of Masasoit, friend of the English, was rallying many tribes for an all-out war were confirmed by a Christian Indian who betrayed some details of this plot. Then suddenly on Sunday, June 24, 1675, as the people of Swansea were leaving church, King Phi1ip and his warriors swooped down upon them, slaughtering men, women and children. The victorious savages swept across Rhode Island and Massachusetts into the upper Connecticut Valley, burning and butchering and gaining recruits as they advanced. Connecticut troops hurried off to the defense of the western frontier.

After the massacre at Deerfield (September 18th) the Narragansetts, who had previously pledged neutrality, went on the warpath and the Indians began concentrating their forces in Rhode Island, threatening eastern Connecticut. On December 10th, Connecticut volunteers, numbering 315 men, 70 from New London County, marched off from Stonington and Norwich under Maj. Robert Treat to join troops from Massachusetts and Plymouth. The Stonington company was commanded by Capt. John Gallup, Jr. the band of Mohegan allies were under Capt. John Mason, Jr.; a significant coincidence. The combined colonial forces surrounded a swamp near Kingston, R. I., in the heart of which King Philip and his braves were camped on an island. The battle that followed was the first important victory for the colonists. Though Philip himself and a considerable band of his men escaped, the Indian casualties were more than 300 killed and a more serious loss of prestige was suffered. The English losses, too, were heavy: 80 men killed, some 150 wounded.

Among the dead were Capt. John Gallup killed in action, and Capt. John Mason who died soon afterwards of wounds. Capt. Gallup was buried with his comrades-in-arms in a common grave on the field where they fell. This sacred spot is now appropriately marked by a rough granite column. It is not surprising that John Gallup died without having made a will. He was only 55 years old, in robust health, vigorous and active in many affairs. It would have been out of character had he been plagued either with qualms or premonitions.

By court order his estate was divided as follows: to his widow L100; to John III, L137; to Benadam, L90; to William and Samuel, L89 each; to his five daughters, L70 each. For those days it was truly a goodly estate, and the General Court, in recognition of his services made a number of different land grants to his widow and children. The town of Stonington also, "for the grate losse she has sustained," allotted Mrs. Gallup 100 acres. After his death a long smoldering dispute over the boundary between their original land grants was brought into court by George Denison. It became a famous legal battle, adjudicated three times, finally in favor of the Gallups. But this is another story, leading us into the third and fourth generations.

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Title: The Great Migration Begins
Author: Robert Charles Anderson
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Source: (Birth)
Title: History of Stonington, Conn.
Author: Richard Anson Wheeler
Publication: New London:1900
Media: Book

Baptism: JAN 1619/20 St. Mary's, Dorset, England

Death: 19 DEC 1675 Narragansett Swamp Fight, Narragansett Fort, RI

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Title: The Great Migration Begins
Author: Robert Charles Anderson
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Death: 19 DEC 1675 Stonington, New London, CT

Christening: 26 SEP 1590 North Benfleet, Essex, England

Death: BEF 18 JAN 1660/61 North Benfleet, Essex, England

Note: Sometime between 1631 and 1635, Margaret left her husband, John Lake, and emigrated with her sisters and their families to New England, taking her two daughters, Ann and Martha, with her. For many years she lived in the family of her brother-in-law, Gov. John Winthrop, Jr., at New London, Conn. and is mentioned repeatedly in the Winthrop family correspondence. The last decade of her life was spent at Ipswich, Mass., at the home of her daughter, Martha [Lake] Harris and of her sister, Martha Eppes Symonds, the second wife of Dep. Gov. Samuel Symonds.

Death: 1672 Ipswich, Essex, MA

Note: John Gallop, Sr., spelled his name 'op' (the accepted spelling in England today) and John, Jr., wrote his 'up' (the usual U. S. spelling). Since even well known historians have confused these two men, sometimes with ludicrous
results.

John Gallop sailed from England March 20, 1630 on the "Mary & John" arriving in Nantasket on May 30, 1630. He immigrated . from Bridport, Dorset, England leaving his wife and children in England. His first settled in Dorchester, Mass. where he prepared a home for his family, but when he sent for them, his wife refused to make the journey. His wife came on the "Griffin" arriving in Boston on Oct. 6, 1635.

He was a fisherman and mariner. He became a Freeman on 1 April 1634. He was a coastal trader, moving up and down from Maine to Connecticut, carrying goods for the Winthrops and others. In July of 1636, he played a crucial role in the events leading up to the Pequot War. On a trading voyage to Long Island, Gallop came upon the boat of John Oldham, which had been boarded by Indians, who killed Oldham. Gallop took countermeasures, as a result of which several Indians were drowned.

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Title: The Great Migration Begins
Author: Robert Charles Anderson
Media: Book

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Page: pp 725

Source: (Death)
Title: History of Stonington, Conn.
Author: Richard Anson Wheeler
Publication: New London:1900
Media: Book

Data:
Text: Inventory of his estate was made Dec. 26, 1649

Source: (Death)
Title: VR-Cambridge, MA

Data:
Text: Death Jan. 1649/50

Death: 11 JAN 1649/50 Boston, MA

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Title: The Great Migration Begins
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Source: (Death)
Title: VR-Cambridge, MA

Data:
Text: Death - Sep. 27, 1655

Source: (Death)
Title: History of Stonington, Conn.
Author: Richard Anson Wheeler
Publication: New London:1900
Media: Book

Data:
Text: Death Jul 27, 1655

Death: 27 JUL 1655 Boston, MA

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Title: The Great Migration Begins
Author: Robert Charles Anderson
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Death: --Not Shown--

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Title: The Great Migration Begins
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Death: 18 NOV 1625 Bridport, Dorset, England

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Title: The Great Migration Begins
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Death: BEF 1670 Boston, MA

Note: Nathaniel Gallop immigrated to America in 1633 with his mother on the "Griffin" from Bridport, Dorset, England to Boston, Mass. His father had immigrated in 1630 on the "Mary & John".

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Title: The Great Migration Begins
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Death: 1669

Note: He was in Cambridge, Mass. in 1632 and Hartford, Mass. in 1639. He was one of the first settlers of Hadley. Was on the passenger list for the Lyon which left London about 23 August 1631 and arrived at Nantasket on 2 November 1631. He came with wife, Mary, and Mary and Andrew, his children.

Death: 18 DEC 1684 Hadley, MA

Source: (Name)
Title: Gen. Dict. of First Settlers of New England
Author: James Savage
Media: Book

Death: 1679 In the Pequot War

Source: (Name)
Title: Gen. Dict. of First Settlers of New England
Author: James Savage
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: Gen. Dict. of First Settlers of New England
Author: James Savage
Media: Book

Death: 26 JAN 1680/81 Middletown, MA

Source: (Name)
Title: Gen. Dict. of First Settlers of New England
Author: James Savage
Media: Book

Death: 10 APR 1690 Middletown, CT

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Title: The Great Migration Begins
Author: Robert Charles Anderson
Media: Book

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Source: (Name)
Title: Gen. Dict. of First Settlers of New England
Author: James Savage
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: Gen. Dict. of First Settlers of New England
Author: James Savage
Media: Book

Death: 1691 Northfield, MA

Source: (Name)
Title: History of Hadley, Mass
Author: Sylvester Judd
Media: Book