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| Samuel Allison tombstone, Forest Hill Cemetery, East Derry, New Hampshire |
Alternate spellings ALLISON / ALISON / ALLESON / ELLISON
Samuel Allison was born about 1690 probably in Northern Ireland. In 1718 the Rev. James
MacGregor of Aghadowey brought many members of his flock to Boston. This group went to Nutfield, New Hampshire,
now Londonderry, in 1719. Samuel Allison
married Catherine Steele. Their
children are recorded in Londonderry starting in 1721.
Samuel Allison died on 6 September 1760 age 70. Catherine died on 13 January 1760. Both are buried at the Forest Hill Cemetery
in East Derry in the plot called “First Settlers”. Their epitaph reads [according to the genealogy
book by Morrison (see below) because it is illegible today] “Here lies the
bodys of Mr. Samuel Alison & Mrs. Katherine Alison his wife. He departed this life 6th Sept.
AD. 1760, in ye 70th year of his age. She departed this life 13th
Jany AD. 1760, in ye 77th year of her age.”
He is called Charter Samuel Allison because he was one of
the original grantees of land on 22 June 1722.
His land was between the grants given to John Morison and Thomas
Steele. Perhaps his wife was a kinswoman
(sister?) of Thomas Steele? Thomas
married Martha Morrison, a sister of John, his neighbor.
From Vital Records of Londonderry, New Hampshire,
1719 – 1910, page 36
ALLISON, Samuel and Catherine. Children: Martha, Mar. 31, 1721; Samuel, Oct.
8, 1722; Rebecca, Apr. 15, 1724.
Samuel Allison’s will:
In the name of God
amen the fifteen Day of August one thousand seven hundred and sixty I Samuell
Allison of Londonderry within his Majs. Province of New hamshir in Newingland
Yoman being very sick and weak in boday – but perfite Mind and Memery thanks be
given to God therefore Calling to Mind to Mortality of my bodey and Knowing
that it is appointed for all men once to Die Do make and ordain this my last
will and Tastament that is to say principally and first of all I give and
Recommend my soul unto the hands of God that Give it and my bodey I Recommend
to the Earth to be burid in a Desent Cristen burill at the Discraition of my
Exacrs Nothing Doubting but at the generall Resurrection I shall Receive the
same again by the mighty power of God and as Touching such worldly estat
wherewith it hat pleased God to bliss me in this life with I Give Demise and dispose
of the same in the following Maner and form –
Imprimesis after my Debts and funeral
charges is payd I Give and bequeath unto my Grand child Susanna Allison one
single Johanna which is six and thorty shillings starling
Itam I Give and bequeath unto my
Daughter in Law Janet Allison my Cow –
Itam I Give and bequeath unto my
Daughter Jannet Morison for hir own use one single Johana of Gold –
Itam I Give and bequeath unto my
Daughter Rebecca Gray for hir own use on e single Johanna of Gold.
Itam I Give and bequeath unto my
son Samuell Alleson what farming utenshels I am possessed of with my Great bible
and Grate pote –
Itam I allow a tombstone in Good
order to be put over my wife and me out of my Estat in Equell shares amongst my
four Children (vis) Samll Allison Janet Moreson Martha Moreson and Rebecca Gray
and my will is for them to Destrebute it Equilly amongst their children and I
leekwise Constute make and ordeain my three sons (viz) Samll Alleson Samll
Moreson of Windham and Samll Moreson of Derry to be my sole Exacutors of this
my last will and Tastament and my will is for them to give the Revt. Willm
Davidson Six Dollars out of my estat and I do hereby utterly Disallow Revock
and Disanul all and Every other Tastaments wills legeces and bequeaths and
Exacrs by me in any wise before named willed or bequeathed Reatefying and
Confirming this and no other to be my last will and Tastament in witness
whereof I have hereunto sate my hand and sale the Day and year above written signed
sealed Published Pronounced and Declared by me and the sd Samll Alleson as my
last will and Tastament in the presence of us the Subscribers
Samuel Allison
(L S)
David Steel
David Craige
Mos Barnett
Proved by the oath of
Moses Barnett in Common form the 10th Day of Sept. 1760
Children:
1.
Jeanette, born in Ireland about 1712. She married Samuel Morrison, son of John
Morrison and Jeanette Steele. They lived
to very old age, she died on 8 January 1800 at age 87 years, and he died on 21 June
1802 at age 92 years. Two sons: Joseph and Samuel.
2.
Rebecca, born about 1717. She married Robert
Gray and removed to Biddeford, Maine.
3.
Martha is reported to be the first female
European child born in Londonderry on 31 March 1720, and she died on 3 December
1761. She married Lieut. Samuel Morison and died on 3 December 1761 in
Windham. They are buried at the Cemetery
on the Hill in Windham. Samuel is the
son of James Morrison and Mary Wallace.
He came with his parents to Londonderry in 1719 when he was 15 years
old. The Morrison children: John, Samuel, Catherine, James Dinsmore,
William Allison, Hannah Aurelia, Albert Augustine, and Martha.
4.
Samuel, was born about 1722 and died 5 June 1792
in Londonderry. He married Janet
McFarland, daughter of Andrew McFarland and Betty Christy. Samuel Allison was a selectman and a coroner. He served in the French and Indian War and
died 5 June 1792. His children are Margaret, James, Catherine, Samuel, and
John. His wife died in Weathersfield,
Vermont on 16 October 1809, at the home of her son, James Allison.
For more information:
The History of the Alison, or Allison Family in Europe and America,
by Leonard Allison Morrison.
Clan McAlister of America – (Allison is a sept) https://www.clanmcalister.org/
Click here for links to the sketches of all sixteen first Nutfield settlers:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/p/nutfields-first-16-settlers.html
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "ALLISON – Descendants of Nutfield Settler Samuel Allison", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 2, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/02/allison-descendants-of-nutfield-settler.html: accessed [access date]).
Very nice!
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