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62 CAPT. SAMUEL ALLISON, OF LONDONDERRY, N. H.
Rowley, Mass., in 1724 ; d. Oct. 16, 1809, in Weathersfield,
Vt. (at the home of her son, James Allison, where she lived
the latter part of her life), at 85 years, and is buried there;
there is no stone at Weathersfield to mark her grave. Captain
Allison died in Londonderry, June 5, 1792. He suc-
ceeded his father upon the home farm near Derry, East
Village, and was prominent and active in town affairs ; was
intelligent and intellectual, and one of the best extempore
speakers reared in that town. In their town meeting he was
sure to be pitted against Jonathan Morison, an equally fluent
speaker and ready talker. After one of their wordy encoun-
ters, when Morison had been rather worsted in the intel-
lectual combat, he turned to Allison with the pithy remark,
spoken in his rich Scotch brogue, "-Ye are a braw speaker,
but ye dinna tell the truth." When a young man of twenty
two years, on July 3, 1744, he was one of the "Londonderry
troopers "
in Capt. John Mitchell's company raised for
defence against the French and Indians ; he served again in
August, 1745. He served on the board of selectmen 1752,
'53, '54, '55, '56, '57, 58, and '75, and was a signer of the
Association Test in 1776, and was appointed coroner for
Rockingham county in the latter year. His name appears
as a le