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- Mr. Thomas Allyn was one of the first settlers in Barnstable. We do not know the date of his coming to New England, but he speaks, in Mar. 1654, of a visit that he made to England in 1649 on business of his own and as the agent of 'divers friends' as 'at my last being in Ould England.'
His name was proposed as a freeman of Plymouth Colony,1 Mar.1641/42, but he was not admitted as such until 1652. In 1644, 1651 and 1658, he was Surveyor of Highways; in 1648, 1658 and 1670 Constable; in 1653 Juryman.
"Mr. Allyn was one of the wealthiest of the early settlers of Barnstable. His house lots were in the central part of the village as it was first laid out. The records of the laying out of land in Barnstable are all lost, and the records of Mr. Allyn furnish the best information that we have. In 1654 Mr. Allyn owned six of the original house lots, containing from six to twelve acres each, laid out on the north side of the highway, west of Rendez-vous Lane, and the part of this land was still, in 1936, owned by his descendants.
He also owned meadowland at Sandy Neck and in 1647, he owned the land on the north of the Hallett Farm, adjoining the bounds of Yarmouth. Besides these he had rights in the common land and other large tracts"
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