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CHAPTER X.
The Allisons of Magillegan and Limavady, County of London-
DEEKY, Ireland, and of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
997. John Allison ^ was bbrn in 1652, and lived, at Drum-
naha, Magillegan, near Newton-Limavady, in county of Lon-
donderry ; in and near also the waters of Lough Foyle, some
twenty miles distant from the city of Londonderry, and about
equidistant between that place and the parish of Aghadowey
in the same county. From the latter evidently emigrated, in
1718, Samuel Allison, the progenitor of the New Hampshire
Allisons, together with the first settlers of Londonderry, N. H.
Limavady is a place of great antiquity, is well built, and
has a population of several thousand. At Drumnaha, Magillegan,
Mr. John Allison was a prominent citizen, and died in
1736. He is buried in Magillegan, in the family buryingground.
This place is in county of Londonderry, about eight
miles from Limavady, and situated in the angle made by the
junction of Lough Foyle and the Atlantic ocean. There several
generations of this family of Allisons are buried, and there
their living connections, as well as being the connections of
the numerous Allisons of this branch in Nova Scotia, are liv-
ing in 1893. On Mr. AUison'^s tombstone is this inscription :
" Here lieth the body of John Allison, who departed this life
on the 19th of November, 1736, aged 84 years ;
here also lieth
the body of Jane Clarke, first wife of the above John Allison,
who departed this life 10 th May, 1684, aged 24 years. Also
lieth the body of Mary Fleming, second wife to the aforesaid
John, who departed this life 17th March, 1733, aged 78
years."
CHILD.
998. William Allison^ (999), b. in Drumnaha, Ireland, in 1680; resided
there, and d. there June 20, 1766.
999. William Allison 2
Drumnaha, county of Londonderry, Ireland, where he lived
and died. In the family cemetery there he is buried, and
[998] (Johni). He was born in