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182 WILLIAINI ALLISON, OF DRUMNAHA, IRELAND.
coast and station, and by the liberal offers made to them by
the authorities, these sturdy people of Scotch blood were induced
to go in and occupy. Of those who came with the
Allisons, the McHeffys settled in Falmouth, N. S., the Ma-
gees in Aylesford, the McCormicks in Annapolis,
and Mr.
Allison purchased a farm in Horton, Kings county. Nova
Scotia, on the border of the historic Grand Pre, where he
lived till his death in 1794. He was a Presbyterian, though
many of his descendants have departed from the ancient faith,
and belong to other denominations. He married in Limav-
ady, county of Londonderry, Ireland, Mrs. Alice Polk (or
Pollock) Caldwell, who survived him for several years. She
gave the historic silver spoons to her youngest child, a
daughter who lived to be ninety years old. They are now in
the possession of her great-grandson, Hon. Leonard Shannon,
of Halifax, N. S.
CHILDKEN BOEN IN LIJIAVADY, COUNTY OF LONDONDEKEY, IRELAND.
1003. Kebecca Allison* (1020), b. in 1751, d. in 1842. She m. Col. Jonathan
Crane; res. 1004.
1005.
1006.
Horton, Kings Co., Nova Scotia.
William Allison* (1026), b. in 1752; d. about 1815.
John Allison* (1081), b. in 1753; d. March 1, 1821; res. Newport,
Hants Co., N. S.
Joseph Allison* (1044), m. Alice, dau. of Israel Harding, a
Loyalist in the Revolution; res. 1007.
Horton, N, S.
James Allison* (1054), b. in 1765; d. in 1849; m. Margaret Hutchinson.
1008. Nancy Allison,* b. 1768; d. in 1858. She was less than a year old
when brought to Nova Scotia. She m. Major Samuel Leonard,
but left no children. Her husband was a native of New Jersey,
espoused the Loyalist side during the Revolutionary War, and
was a captain in the New Jersey volunteers. He was a major
of the militia in Nova Scotia, in 1807-1808, which garrisoned the
forts at Halifax when the regulars were withdrawn to the aid
of Wellington in the peninsula.
1009. William Allison 3
[1001] (William,2 John 1). He
was born in Drumnaha, county of Londonderry, Ireland, in
1724, lived in his native town, and died Nov. 24, 1798, at 74
years. He married Mary Lawrence, " who departed this life
8th July, 1796, aged 62 years." They are buried in Drumnaha,
Ireland. The tombstone above them records these
facts :
"•
They lived united in the honourable state of matri-
mony 43 years, and brought up a numerous family in the
principles of religion, morality, and truth. He was a man of
the strictest integrity. She possessed all the amiable qualities
that are the best ornaments of her sex."