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to 1658, with the exception of 1653; was
a magistrate from 1657 to 1667, inclu-
sive, and a commissioner of the United
Colonies, 1660-64. He served on many
important committees, among them one
to treat with the Dutch envoys, one to
settle the government of Long Island
towns, one to settle the boundry between
.Massachusetts and Rhode Island colon-
ies, and on a committee empowered to
levy troops. He died at Windsor, February
1, 1671. His wife Margaret was made
executrix of his will.
They were the parents of Captain
Thomas Allyn, who inherited the pater-
nal homestead at Windsor, was a freeman
in 1668, and a trooper in the town
militia; died February 14, 1696. He mar-
ried, October 21, 1658, Abigail, daughter
of Rev. John Warham, first minister of
Windsor, and his wife, Jane. She was bap-
tized May 27, 1638, and was a member of
the Windsor church.
Their third son was Lieutenant Thomas
Allyn, born March 11, 1663, in Windsor,
died there April 6, 1709. His estate was
valued at £258, 10s. and 8d. He married,
January 6, 1686, Martha Wolcott, born
May 17, 1664, died September 8, 1687,
daughter of Simon and Martha (Pitkin)
Wolcott.
They were the parents of Benjamin
Allyn, born October 14, 1686, died Decem-
ber 14, 1713. He married, December 18,
1707, Ann Watson, born 1686, daughter
of Nathaniel and Dorothy (Bissell) Watson,
granddaughter of Robert Watson,
who came from London, England, and
his wife, Mary, daughter of John Rockwell,
of Windsor.
Captain Benjamin Allyn, son of Benjamin
and Ann (Watson) Allyn, was born
April 8, 171 1, in Windsor, where he died
March 18, 1776. He commanded a company
in the Crown Point Expedition of
1755. He married, August 9, 1733, Abi-
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gail Loomis, born April 10, 1714, died
May 29, 1795. daughter of Ensign Job
and Abigail (Filley) Loomis, descendant
of Joseph Loomis, one of the first settlers
of Windsor.
Their fifth son and tenth child was Col-
onel Job Allyn, born November 24, 1753,
who married, May 16, 1777, Abigail
Mather, born September 20, 1757, daugh-
ter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Allen)
Mather, died June 17, 1843.
Their sixth son and eleventh child was
Timothy Mather Allyn, who was born
September 7, 1800, in Windsor, baptized
there June 7, 1801, and died August 25,
1882, in Hartford. He was reared on the
paternal farm in Windsor, and received
some education in the local public schools.
At at early age he was accustomed to
assist in the operation of a brick kiln,
operated in connection with the farm.
The youth was accustomed to cut wood
and mix and bake bricks, and in one year
himself produced one hundred and twenty
thousand bricks, which were sold in Hart-
ford at the rate of four and a half dollars
per thousand. At the age of twenty-five
years he left his native home and traveled
west as far as the State of Ohio. At the
end of two years he returned east, and
was located in New York City for three
years, connected with the wholesale dry
goods business. At the age of thirty
years he settled in Hartford, and in asso-
ciation with his brother established a
store on Asylum street. The venture was
successful, and Timothy M. Allyn con-
tinued to be associated with it until
1848, when he retired from mercantile
business, and devoted himself to the care
of his large real estate interests. While
still a young man he had shrewly fore-
seen the growth of Hartford, and, with
more than usual business judgment,
sought to enhance his own fortune by
extensive investment in real estate in