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122 FRANCIS ALISON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN.
than five vessels of immi'grauts from the north of Ireland
arrived on the coast of New England, but forbidden to land
at Boston by the intolerant Puritans, the emigrants moved
up the Kennebec and there settled. The winter of 1717-18,
of these
being one of unusual severity, the great majority
settlers left the Kennebec, and came overland into Pennsylvania,
settling in Northampton county." (See p. 44, note
to Samuel Allison, No. 1, of Londonderry, N. H.) It was at
this very time that one portion of those emigrants went from
the Kennebec, and founded the Scotch settlement of Londonderry,
N. H.
In the Scotch settlement of Allen township were the fol-
lowing Allisons, all presumably the children of James Allison,
Sr. Mr. Allison was a farmer.
CHILDKEN.
407. James Allison. Jr. He was a farmer; res. in Allen townsliip, and
was taxed in 1780.
408. John Allison. He was a farmer; a resident of Allen townsliip, and
was taxed in 1780.
409. Sarah Allison, m. Joseph Horner.
410. Mary Allison, m. Joseph Hays.
411. Jeannie Allison, m. William Scott.
412. Margaret Allison.
413. Ann Allison, m. James Wilson.
REV. FRANCIS ALISON AND HIS DESCENDANTS.
414. Rev. Francis Alison, D. D., was perhaps the most
influential person of this family name in Chester county at
that early period. He was born in 1705, in the parish of
Leck,i county of Donegal, Ireland educated at the Univer-
;
sity at Glasgow, Scotland; emigrated to America in 1735;
licensed as a Presbyterian minister in 1736 or 1737 installed
;
over the church in New London, Chester county. May 25,
1736, and remained fifteen years went to ; Philadelphia in
1752, took charge of the academy there, and became vice-
provost of the college of Pennsylvania, afterwards University
of Pennsylvania, on its establishment in 1755. He was professor
of moral philosophy and assistant pastor of the First
Presbyterian church in Philadelphia, Penn. In 1756 the
degree of A. M. was given him by Yale college, and in 1758
the degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by the University
of Glasgow, Scotland. It is asserted that he was the
' Leek is a parish on the direct road between Letter Kenney and Raphel,
and some three miles from Letter Kenney. There is a church there, and
Rev. A. W. Smyth was the incumbent in 1892.