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PRESERVED PURITAN
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ORIGIN: Stepney, Middlesex
MIGRATION: 1635 on the
Abigail
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
EDUCATION: Made his mark to his
will. His inventory included "books" valued at 5s.
ESTATE: In his will, dated 2 January
1673[/4] and proved 1 July 1674, "Hugh Ally Senior" bequeathed to "my son
John Ally" a sheep and lamb for his wife and children to use until the children
come of age; to "my grandchild John Linsey" a ewe and the first lamb to "his
[John's] brother Eleazer Linsey"; to "Samuell Linsey" the increase of the
sheep, to be kept until they are all of age; to "my grandchildren Eleazer
Linsy's children" lambs; to "Martha Mills and her child Martha Mills" sheep;
residue to "my wife" to dispose at her death to "my children as she sees
most need" [
EPR
2:407-8, 301:53-54].
The inventory of the estate of Hugh Alley, taken on 7
February 1673[/4], totalled £60 17s. 4d., of which £10 was real
estate: "one house and one acre of land & half" [
EPR
2:408, 301:54].
BIRTH: About 1608 (aged 27 in 1635
[
Hotten
97]; deposed 1662 "aged about 53" [
SJC
Case #448;
EQC
2:394-95]).
DEATH: Lynn 25 January 1673[/4].
MARRIAGE: By 1641 Mary _____. She
survived to administer his estate on 1 July 1674 [
EPR
2:408].
CHILDREN (all born Lynn):
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i MARY,
b. 6 January 1641[/2]; m. Lynn 6 June 1667 John Lindsay. |
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ii JOHN,
b. 30 November 1646; m. Lynn "middle" August 1670 Joanna Furnell. |
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iii MARTHA,
b. 31 July 1649; m. Lynn 1 April 1671 James Mills. |
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iv SARAH,
b. 15 April 1651; m. Lynn [blank] August 1668 Eleazer Lindsay. |
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v HUGH,
b. 15 October 1653; m. Lynn 9 December 1681 Rebecca Hood. |
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vi SOLOMON,
b. 2 August 1656; killed with Thomas Lothrop, one of the "flower of Essex"
to die at Bloody Brook on 18 September 1675 [
Bodge
137-38]. |
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vii HANNAH,
b. 1 June 1661; almost certainly the unnamed daughter of "Hugh, sr." who
d. Lynn 30 October 1674. |
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viii JACOB,
b. 5 August 1663; no further record. |
COMMENTS: On 30 June 1635, "Hugh
Alley," aged 27, servant of HENRY COLLINS, was enrolled at London, with a
certificate of conformity from the minister at Stepney, Middlesex, as a passenger
for New England on the Abigail [
Hotten
97]. Hugh Alley did not receive land in the 1638 Lynn land division, indicating
that he may then still have been in service to Henry Collins.
On 26 June 1655, Hugh Alley sued "Mr. Jon. Beckes &
Company, undertakers of the ironworks at Lynn, and Mr. Gifford, their late
agent," for debt [EQC
1:394].
On 31 March 1657, Hugh Alley was presented for "being
drunk at John Hathorn's," and on 1 July 1657, he was fined 10s. for being
drunk (perhaps the same offense) [
EQC
2:36, 50].
In 1662, Hugh Alley, giving his age as 53, deposed in the
dispute over JOHN HUMPHREY's farm [
SJC
Case #448; EQC
2:394-95].
In his will Hugh Alley named explicitly only his four
eldest children, who were already married by that time. The remaining, younger
children were referred to only indirectly, and so we have no way of knowing
whether son Jacob was still alive in 1674 or not.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1899 Sidney
Perley published a brief, undocumented account of Hugh Alley and his agnate
descendants [
Essex Ant
3:49-52]. Perley gave 25 January 1674 as the date of death of Jacob, the
youngest child of the immigrant; but this date does not appear in the published
Lynn vital records, and it is the same as the date given for the death of
the immigrant himself.
In 1990 Alicia Crane Williams prepared an account of a
line of descent from Hugh Alley through his son Hugh [
Chase-Wigglesworth
49-54]. |
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