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40 THOMAS ALLISON, OF DEERFIELD, MASS.
Ralph Allison was of Scarborough, Me., in 1673, and was
a great lundholder.— Savage^ s Genealogical Dictionary .
Thomas Alison, on June 14, 1679, had tickets granted to
him from Barbadoes, for Jamaica, in the ship Johns Adventure,
Edward Winslow, commander.
Thomas Allison came from Windsor, Conn., and settled in
Deerfield, Mass. ; was constable in 1692; called shoemaker
that year, and trader in 1711 ; sold his home lot there in
1711 to Rev. John Williams. Thomas Allison was an inhabitant
of Colchester, Mass., in 1713,— perhaps the Thomas of
Deerfield.
Joseph Allison was a resident of Southold, Long Island,
N. Y., in 1721, and was in Goshen, N. Y., in 1726.
Thomas Allison, of Deerfield, Mass., lived at Wapping in
1710, and in his old age was cared for by the town.
John Allison, of Deerfield, Mass., 1698 ; married, Aug. 4,
1698, Alice, daughter of George Jeffries, who died Dec. 31,
1730, aged 61 years. No children in 1704. He was employed
in 1712 to sweep the meeting-house. —Sheldon's History
of Deerfield^ Mass.
William Allison was of Windsor previous to 1700.
Samuel Allison came from the county of Londonderry,
Ireland, to America in 1718, and to Londonderry, N. H., in
1719.
John Alliston, of Hartford, Conn., purchased land there of
Samuel Graham in 1726.—Hinman's Settlers of Connecticut,
2d ed., pp. 47, 48.
Elizabeth Allison, Comfort Allison, and Ann Allison,
spinsters, of Boston, Mass., nieces of Madame Susannah
Thatcher, of Milton, Mass., late deceased, received certain
sums left by her will, of Rev. Peter Thatcher, May 24, 1725.
— Suffolk County, 3Iass., Records, Bostoti, Mass. On the same
records Andrew Allison, or Ellison (spelled each way),
deeded land May 22, 1733.
"Thomas Allison, of Southampton, in Great Britain, Gentleman,
and Susannah, wife of the said Thomas Allison,
heretofore Susannah Caswall," and other heirs of Henry Caswall,
late of Boston, Mass., sold property there July 24, 1749.
Thomas Allison was late of London.—
Suffolk County, Mass.,
Records,
'From the church records of the parish of Templemore, Londonderry,
Ireland, which are kept in the ancient cathedral in that city, I took this
record: "William Allison had his son Thomas Allison baptized, Feb. 9,
1663."