Winifred Allyn

Biography

From Find A Grave Memorial# 37539398

Married by 1634, Winifred ____. ("John Craford & Winifred Longman" were married on 2 Feb 1629/30 at the parish of St. Vedast Foster Lane, London; further research would be required to determine whether this is the New England couple.)

They had one child:

1. Rebecca born about 1634; died at Reading, Massachusetts on July 8, 1710; married first, Samuel Sprague at Boston on August 23, 1655; married second, John Brown of Malden on June 24, 1697. [1]

She married (2) JOHN WOLCOTT {1634, Watertown} & THOMAS ALLEN {1639, Dorchester}.

They had two Children:

1. MARTHA: b. say 1636; m. by 1675, Benjamin ____.
2. SARAH: b. say 1638 (perhaps posthumously); m. Plymouth, 1 Mar 1659/60, William Clark, son of THOMAS CLARK {1623, Plymouth}.

She married (3) by 10 Nov 1642, THOMAS ALLYN {1639, Barnstable}. Winifred married (3) THOMAS ALLEN {1639, Dorchester}.

1. Samuel, son of Thomas Allen, baptized on February 18, 1643; [6] [5]married Hannah Walley on May 10, 1664. [7]
2. John, son of Thomas Allen, baptized on September 27, 1646 [6] [5]; married Mary Howland in 1673. [7]
3. Mehitable, daughter of Thomas Allyn, baptized on November 26, 1648. [6] [5]; married first Samuel Annable; married second Cornelius Briggs. [4]

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Winifred, widow of John Woolcott, deceased, was recorded as a grantee of 6 acres in the town plot and of a farm of 183 acres, and was a proprietor of this and four additional lots of land at Watertown in 1644. Winifred later married Thomas Allyn of Barnstable MA. In 1649, Thomas Allyn and his wife, Winifred, signed another deed giving properties at Watertown, including a house that had been Winifred's, to Edmund White of London. This appears to have been the same properties Winifred signed over in 1641, so the 1649 deed was probably a quit claim signed after her marriage to Thomas Allyn. Thomas Allyn died in 1679. His will, dated 1675, mentions his children, Samuel, John, and Mehitable Annabelle, and Samuel's son, Thomas. Samuel Allyn, was born in 1644, and John Allyn in 1646. Thomas' daughter, Mehitable was born in 1648 and married Samuel Annabel in 1667. Some or all of these children may have been from a first wife, for Samuel Allyn was born about the same time that Winifred Wolcott was recorded as a widow living at Watertown. Thomas Allyn's will also mentions his "daughter-in-law", Sarah, William Clark's wife, and Martha, Benjamin's wife, and his "daughter-in-law" Rebecca, wife of Samuel Sprague. These "daughters-in-law" were the children of Winifred by her previous marriages. Winifred's daughter, Rebecca Crawford, born about 1633, married Samuel Sprague at Boston in 1655. This couple were living at Malden MA in 1662. Samuel Sprague died in 1696, and Rebecca then married Capt. John Browne, dying in 1710 at age 77. Sarah Clark was the child of Winifred and John Wolcott.

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GEDCOM Note

[Note: Origin and birth unknown. Birth estimated at 1614 based on marriage by 1634]
[Note: A marriage recorded between John Crawford and Winifred Longman 1629/30 in London has not been confirmed to be the correct couple, although is a possibility] [Note: Can't find any reference to dod. She is not mentioned inthe abstract's of Thomas Allen's will written in February 1675/6, although her children are and in 1693/4, daughter Rebecca Sprague and husband Samuel Sprague sold Winifred's Watertown lands]

Timeline

• 1634: Of Watertown, Massachusetts, wife/widow of Mr. Crawford.
• 1637: June 26: Winifred Wolcott was granted 3 acres in the remote meadow at Watertown.
• 1638: April 9: Winifred Wolcott was granted 6 acres at the town plot.
• 1638: June 30: Mrs. Wolcott was ordered by the court to provide inventory of her husband's estate to be examined by court deputies, to determine the items of her husband's and the children's leavings. Mr.Edward White, merchant of London had claims due from John Wolcott of New England.
• 1640: June 1: Theophilus Eaton corresponded with John Winthrop Sr., indicating that his brother Nathaniel Eaton had received several sums from Mrs. Wolcott for Mr. White.
• 1640: December 1: The order to the court deputies was renewed to examine the estate and accounts of Mrs. Wolcott and Mr. White.
• 1641: May 31: Winifred Wolcott of Watertown, deeded several parcels including the dwelling house, barns, stables, garden and other plots of land, meadow and pasture to Edward White for the value of L388,relating to John Wolcott's debts owed to White.
• 1641: July: Winifred Wolcott by 'virtue of a court order', granted ahouse, garden and lots of 6, 30 and 4 1/2 acres valued at L 88 towards the debt of L 873 7d owed Mr. White from her late husband John Wolcott.
• 1642: May 10: Winifred Wolcott was granted a farm of 183 acres at Watertown.
• 1642: November 10: Deeded by Thomas Allen and Winifred his wife, fo Barnstable, houses, lands and estates in Watertown to Edward White of London.
• 1655: June 25: Thomas and Winifred Allen of Barnstable sold land, meadow and marsh to Samuel Stratton of Watertown.
• 1693/4: January 30: Samuel Sprague Sr., with the consent of his wifeRebecca and other Sprague family members sold about 150 acres of the farm granted to Winifred Wolcott at Watertown, to Joshua Biglo.

Biography

Winifred (___/?Longman) (Crawford) (Wolcott) Allen's parents and origins are unknown. Her first husband was likely John Craford/Crawford who was of Watertown, Massachusetts by 1634. Their marriage is alsoestimated to be by this date as their daughter Rebecca was born aboutthis time.

Anderson, Robert C., George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. (___) Crawford in: Great Migration:Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001, p. 230-1 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Anderson, Robert C. John Wolcott in: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2011, p. 531-542 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.)

There is a marriage record of a John Craford and Winifred Longman,recorded at St. Vedast, London, England on February 2, 1629/30, but is unconfirmed that this is the correct family.

Mr. Crawford drowned on August 12, 1634, after setting out in a small boat with his brother and his servant on the Charles River. The boat overturned and all three men drowned. Anderson, Robert C. Editor's Effusions in: Great Migration Newsletter, Volume 5, 1994, p. 25-6 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.)

Winifred married second, by 1637, John Wolcott at Watertown, likely as his third wife. Her husband John was baptized at Axbridge, Somerset, England on May 13, 1599. Her husband John Wolcott died by June 5, 1638, when widow Wolcott was ordered to provide an inventory of his estate. Her husband John Wolcott died owning debts of close to L 1000 to Edward White, merchant of London, and widow Winifred sold many parcelsto alleviate that debt, and further deeded other lands to Edward White, along with her third husband Thomas Allen.

She married third, Thomas Allen by November 10, 1642. Thomas died at Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1680. Freeman, Frederick. The History of Cape Cod: Annals of the Thirteen Townsof Barnstable County, Volume 2, W. H. Piper & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, 1869, p. 274

In Thomas' will, written February 18, 1675/6, and proved on March 5, 1679/80, he left bequests to his children and Winifred's daughters: Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts: A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies,Towns, and Churches, and Other Contemporaneous Documents, Boston, Massachusetts, 1900, p. 15. Reprint:Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1965

• son Samuel
• Samuel's eldest son Thomas
• son John
• daughter Mehitable
• to daughter in law Sarah, William Clark's wife - 40s
• daughter Martha, Benjamin's wife - 40s
• daughter-in-law Rebecca, Samuel Spragues wife - 40s
• son-in-law Samuel Annible was named one of the executors

References

• Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families (F.B. & F.P. Goss, Publishers and Printers, Barnstable, Mass., 1888) Vol. 1, Page 9 Archive.Org
• Torrey: m. Thomas Allen (-1680) & 1/wf Winifred (Crawford) [Wolcott], w ___?, w John; b[y] 1644; Watertown/Barnstable by 1644 1064 ( Crawford [?John]%28-1634%29 & Winifred____?; (-1701);m. 2)John Wolcott; m. 3)Thomas Allyn; b. 1633 Watertown. [sic m. 1633]
• http://capecodgenes.com/web%20cards/ps36/ps36_417.html
• Watertown Records: Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings, with the Lands, Grants and Possessions, Also the Proprietors' Book, and the First Book and Supplement of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Volume 1, Press of F.G. Barker, Watertown, Massachusetts, 1894
• THE WOLCOTT FAMILY OF SOMERSET, ENGLAND http://www.wolcottfamily.com/somerset.html*Wolcott Immigrants and Their Early Descendants (The First Six Generations) : Published by The Society of the Descendants of Henry Wolcott, 2002
• U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 - Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.

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England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-1936
Name: Langeman
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 24 Aug 1603
Event Place: Okeford-Fitzpaine, Okeford-Fitzpaine, Dorset, England
Mother's Name: Alce Langeman GS Film Number: 002427549 , Digital Folder Number: 004508608 , Image Number: 00588
Citing this Record
"England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-1936," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QJDH-LTMQ : accessed 17 Aug 2014), Langeman, 24 Aug 1603; Christening, citing Okeford-Fitzpaine, Okeford-Fitzpaine, Dorset, England, Record Office, Dorchester; FHL microfilm 002427549.

Winifred Longman
England Marriages, 1538–1973
Name: John Craford
Spouse's Name: Winifred Longman
Event Date: 02 Feb 1629
Event Place: Saint Vedast Foster Lane And Saint Michael Le Querlo,London,London,England Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00155-1 , System Origin: England-ODM , GS Film number: 942 B4HA V. 30
"England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V52C-SF3 : accessed 17 Aug 2014), John Craford and Winifred Longman, 02 Feb 1629; citing Saint Vedast Foster Lane And Saint Michael Le Querlo,London,London,England, reference ; FHL microfilm 942 B4HA V. 30.

New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 about Winifred Crawford
Name: Winifred Crawford
[Winifred Longman]
Gender: Female
Household Members:
Name Birth Year
Winifred Crawford

John Woolcott of Watertown MA, 1599-1638
Revised July 2014
Shortly after arriving in America, John Woolcott married Winifred Longman Crawford of Watertown. She was the widow of John Crawford who drowned in the Charles River in 1634. Winifred had two children from her first marriage, Martha and Rebecca. (johnwolcott at mail.com).

U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 about John Wolcott
Name: John Wolcott
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 1634
Death Year: 1638
Marriage Place: New England, United States
Spouse's Name: Winifred Crawford

John Woolcott and wife Winifred Woolcott Allyn

(1) John Woolcott, b. Axbridge, Somerset, 1599, d. 1638 Watertown MA. After the death of his first wife, Mary Wrentmore, John immigrated to America on the Recovery of London, which departed from Weymouth, Dorset, in 1634. He was admitted as a freeman of Cambridge MA in 1635. His daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, either came with him, or followed soon after. Shortly after arriving in America, John Woolcott married Winifred Crawford of Watertown. She was the widow of John Crawford who drowned in the Charles River in 1634. Winifred had at least one child from her first marriage, Rebecca Crawford, born in 1633. John's surname was usually spelled Woolcott, a spelling that some of his descendants continued using.

Winifred, widow of John Woolcott, deceased, was recorded as a grantee of 6 acres in the town plot and of a farm of 183 acres, and was a proprietor of this and four additional lots of land at Watertown in 1644.

Winifred later married Thomas Allyn of Barnstable MA. In 1649, Thomas Allyn and his wife, Winifred, signed another deed giving properties at Watertown, including a house that had been Winifred's, to Edmund White of London. This appears to have been the same properties Winifred signed over in 1641, so the 1649 deed was probably a quit claim signed after her marriage to Thomas Allyn. Thomas Allyn died in 1679. His will, dated 1675, mentions his children, Samuel, John, and Mehitable Annabelle, and Samuel's son, Thomas. Samuel Allyn, was born on in 1644, and John Allyn in 1646. Thomas' daughter, Mehitable was born in 1648 and married Samuel Annabel 1667. Some or all of these children may have been from a first wife, for Samuel Allyn was born at the same time that Winifred Wolcott was recorded as a widow living at Watertown. Thomas Allyn's will also mentions his "daughter-in-law", Sarah, William Clark's wife, and Martha, Benjamin's wife, and his "daughter-in-law" Rebecca, wife of Samuel Sprague. These "daughters-in-law" were the children of Winifred by her previous marriages.

There is no proof of death or burial
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John Crawford married by 1634, Winifred Longman?. ("John Craford & Winifred Longman" were married on 2 Feb 1629/30 at the parish of St. Vedast Foster Lane, London.
They had one child: Rebecca Sprague Brown.
She married (2) by 1637, JOHN WOLCOTT {1634, Watertown}
They had 2 children:
MARTHA: b. say 1636; m. by 1675, Benjamin ____.
SARAH: b. say 1638 (perhaps posthumously); m. Plymouth, 1 Mar 1659/60, William Clark, son of THOMAS CLARK {1623, Plymouth}.
She married (3) by 10 Nov 1642, THOMAS ALLYN {1639, Barnstable}.
Winifred married (3) THOMAS ALLEN {1639, Dorchester}.