Abigail WARHAM

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Dau. of Rev. John and Jane Warham of Windsor, Conn.

Abigail married Capt Thomas ALLYN on 21 Oct 1658. Thomas (son of Matthew ALLYN and Margaret WYATT) was born about 1635; died on 14 Feb 1695/6. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John ALLYN was born on 17 Aug 1659; died in young.
2. Matthew ALLYN was born on 5 Jan 1660/1; died on 17 Feb 1758.
3. Thomas ALLYN was born on 11 Mar 1663; died on 6 Apr 1709.
4. John ALLYN was born on 24 Jun 1665; died in 1707.
5. Samuel ALLYN was born on 3 Nov 1667.
6. Jane ALLYN was born on 22 Jul 1670; died on 11 Apr 1702.
7. Abigail ALLYN was born on 17 Oct 1672; died on 21 Jun 1754.
8. Sarah ALLYN was born on 13 Jul 1674; died on 28 Dec 1740.
9. Esther/Hester ALLYN was born on 29 Jan 1676/7; died on 4 Oct 1750.
10. Benjamin ALLYN was born in 1680; died on 13 Dec 1712.

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He came, it is said of a family of gentry of Dorset and Devon; Rev. G.C. Wilson in his article in the Memorial History of Hartford County, says he is thought to have come of an ancient family, the same stock as William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died in 1532. He was a graduate of St. Mary Hall, Oxford University, B.A., Nov. 14, 1614, M.A. May 18, 1618, and on May 23, 1619, was ordained at Silverton, co.Devon, by the Bishop of Exeter. Later, he preached in the City of Exeter and having embraced the Puritan doctrines, came to New England in the "Mary and John", in the spring of 1630, as one of the ministers of the party who founded Dorchester, Mass., where he served six years. His name is in the list of those desiring to be made Freemen, Oct., 1630. In 1636, he with the major part of the Dorchester congregation moved to Connecticut River and founded Windsor, where he served as pastor for thirty-four years until his death. He is classed by Trumbull, as one of the twelve civil and religious fathers of Connecticut. According to Cotton Mather,he was an energetic minister and a vigorous preacher and although "as pious a man as most that were out of Heaven, yet Satan often threw him into those deadly pangs of melancholy that made him despair of every getting thither." (Mather's Magnalia, I, pp. 441-2.) Several early New England ministers were similarly afflicted, doubtless from being steeped in the dismal theology of that period. There is an interesting note about him in Roger Clap's Memoirs. Living as a lad 3 miles from Exeter, he says: "I then took such a liking unto the Revd. Mr. John Warham that I did desire to live near him; So I removed (with my Father's consent) into the city," etc,. His first wife, whom he married in England, died at Dorchester, Mass., about Dec., 1634

John married Jane DABINOTT about 1637. Jane was born in England; died on 23 Apr 1655 in Norwalk, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Perhaps the dau. of John and Johane Dabinott of Chardstock, Dorset, England