John Gallop
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John Gallop (1621 - 1675)

Capt John Gallop aka Gallup
Born in St. Mary's Parish, Bridport, or Mosterne, Dorset, Englandmap
Husband of — married 1643 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Died at age 54 in Kings Towne, King's Province, Rhode Islandmap
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Biography

John Gallop immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
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Capt John Gallop was KIA during King Philip's War.

Note: John Gallop is an ancestor of U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

John was born or baptized 25 Jan 1619 / 1620 at St. Mary's Parish, Bridport, or Mosterne, Dorset, England.

John Gallup immigrated to America with his mother, two brothers and sister Joan, in the ship Griffin, arriving at Boston on the 4th day of Sept., 1633. He married Hannah Lake, daughter of John and Margaret Lake, and sister of Elizabeth Read, who married John Winthrop, Jr., Governor of Connecticut. She also immigrated with her mother, in the ship Abigail, arriving Oct. 6, 1635, after a passage of ten weeks.[1]

He removed from Boston to New London 1651. In 1654 to his residence, Whitehall, built upon a tract of land on the Mystic River.[2]

He married about 1642/43 probably in Boston, Massachusetts Hannah Anna Lake.

He died 19 Dec 1675 OR 1676 at South Kingstown, Kings County (now named Washington County), Rhode Island, killed in King Phillip's War, and is supposedly buried at Narragansett, Washington County, Rhode Island.[3][4]

From: Genealogical Record of the Hodges Family, Pg. 76 [5] (italics added to highlight errors):

John Gallop (or Gallup), father of Ester (Gallop) Hodges, was son of Capt. John Gallop, the noted Boston pilot and sea-captain. He was born in England and came to Massachusetts with his mother, Christabel Gallop, in 1633, three years after his father's first arrival. He settled in Taunton some time previous to August 1643, when he was enrolled among those able to bear arms. He went to New London, Conn., apparently in 1650 or 1651, but probably did not take his family there for several years, as his daughter Ester's birth is recorded at Taunton among the children of Richard Burt. In 1654 he settled in Stonington, Conn., of which town he was representative in 1665 and 1667. He was employed often as Indian interpreter and in his career had much to do with the aborigines. He was a bold fighter and is supposed to have aided his father in what has been called the first naval engagement in New England waters, when, in 1636, "two men and two boys" attacked and captured the pinnace manned by 14 Indians who had murdered John Oldham. This murder led to the Pequot war in which John Gallop fought again, and for his services was granted 100 acres of land by the General Court of Connecticut. When King Phillip's war broke out, he was called on still again and given command of a Connecticut company, and was one of the six captains killed in the Great Narragansett Swamp Fight, Dec. 19, 1675, the hardest battle of this war.

In his Register article of 1900 (v.54 pp.89-91), Almon Hodges, who wrote the Hodges Family genealogy cited above, corrected his error of conflating the John Gallop of Taunton with the John Gallop who married Hannah Lake.[6] Hodges' treatment of the Gallop family was in the context of identifying the parents of Esther Gallop, wife of Henry Hodges. Esther is now connected to her proper parents, John Gallop and Charity (Hall) Burt

From: Genealogy of the Gallup Family, Page 21 (abridged):

John Gallup, son of John and Christobel Gallup, was born in England, and came to this country in 1633. He married in 1643, at Boston, Hannah Lake,daughter of John and Margaret Lake. Madam Margaret Lake was the daughter of Edmund Read, Esq., of Wickford, Essex county, England, and sister of Elizabeth Read, who married John Winthrop, jr., Governor of Connecticut.In early life he showed signs of the bravery which afterwards distinguished him as an Indian warrior. It is supposed he was with his father and assisted him in the capture of John Oldham's vessel, off Block Island. With Massachusetts forces he engaged with his father in the Pequot war and bore himself so bravely that the General Court of Connecticut in 1671 gave him a grant of 100 acres of land. He came to New London in 1650 or '51.
Having these large grants of land he removed with his family in 1654 to the east side of the Mystic river, now Stonington, where he had taken up the land granted him. He was one of the early settlers of that town. His homestead place was bounded on the west by Mystic river, south by Captain Stanton's homestead place and Captain Denison's land, east by Denison's land and the town lots, and on the north by Robert Park's land. He represented the town at the General Court in 1665 and 1667. He was also an Indian interpreter. When King Philip's war broke out, although he was over sixty, age had not quenched his martial ardor. new London county having raised seventy men under Captain John Mason of Norwich, Captain Gallup jaoined with him at the head of the Mohegans. These troops forming a junction with those of the other colonies, were engaged in the fearful swamp fight at Narragansett, December 19, 1675 (within the limits of the present town of South Kingston, R.I.)
In storming this fort he led his men bravely forward and was one of the six captains who fell in this memorable fight. A complete victory was here gained over the savage foe, but with great loss of life on both sides. Capt. Gallup was a brave and valuable officer and was loved and respected by his men.
The division made of his estate by order of the County Court was to the widow, 100 pounds; to the oldest son John, 137 pounds,; five daughters,70 pounds each. Mrs. Hannah Gallup had also a large grant of land from the General Court in consideration of her great loss.

Sources

  1. Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From Its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900. Press of the Day Publishing Co.,New London, CT, Jan. 1900. Page: 382
  2. Memorial Gravestone Inscription; MORE INFO SOUGHT
  3. Find A Grave: Memorial #10866775 for Capt. John Gallup.
  4. Wikipedia article on the Great Swamp Fight.
  5. Genealogical Record of the Hodges Family of New England, Ending December 31, 1894, compiled by Almon D. Hodges, Jr., Third Edition, printed for the family by Frank H. Hodges, Boston, 1896. Henry Hodges, Record #3, Taunton Branch, Page 75.
  6. Almon D. Hodges Jr, John Gallop of Taunton, Mass., The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. V.54 pp.89-91 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) NEHGS member site
  • Genealogical History of the Gallup Family of the United States, by John D. Gallup, Agawam, Mass., Press of the Hartford Printing Company (Elihu Geer's Sons), Hartford, Conn., 1893. Second Generation, Genealogical Page 21.
  • Genealogical Record of the Hodges Family of New England, Ending December 31, 1894, compiled by Almon D. Hodges, Jr., Third Edition, printed for the family by Frank H. Hodges, Boston, 1896. John Gallop is the father of Esther (Gallop) Hodges, the wife of Henry Hodges, Record #3, Taunton Branch, Page 75.

See also:

  • Ancestry.com, Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934
  • Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins Sketches Preserved Puritan: John Gallop 1630 Boston, pp 725-28.
  • Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of New London County, Connecticut, With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co., 1882. p 478. [Digital copy available at Internet Archive.]
  • Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Vol. 1, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2011, p. 595. GALLUP, John (1618-1675) & Hannah [LAKE] (1621-); ca 1643; Boston/New London, CT.




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This person immigrated to New England between 1621-1640 as a Minor Child (under age 21 at time of immigration) of a Puritan Great Migration immigrant who is profiled in Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Directory (or is otherwise accepted by the Puritan Great Migration (PGM) Project).

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posted by Bobbie (Madison) Hall
John Gallop (1621-1675) John Gallup Jr - corroborates actions taken by Captain John (Gallop-261) & his death at the "fearful swamp fight" @ Narragansett. Also this source quantifies land given to John Gallop (Gallop-261):
9 Feb 1652/3 - 300 acres of "upland" along the Mistick river upon the "general neck" (of land). (Colonial Records of Hartford).
6 Feb 1653/4 - father (Gallop-7) gave him additional 150 acres at Mistick which was given to his father by General Stoughton after the Pequot War.

John Gallup Benadam Gallup I (1655-1727) listed as ancestor the Honorable Caleb Hathaway Gallup of HUron County, Ohio

<ref>"History of Huron County, Ohio : its progress and development, with biographical sketches of prominent citizens of the county" by Baughman, A. J. (Abraham J.), 1838-1913 (https://archive.org/details/historyhuroncou00bauggoog/page/n13/mode/2up) Honorable Caleb Hathaway Gallup</ref>

posted by Richard Schamp
It is curious that out of his estate, "to the five daughters" went £ 70 each. However, it appears that he had 6 daughters, all of whom appeared to be living when his estate was distributed (based on their WikiTree dates of death)... which makes me wonder which "daughter" was left out, and why.
posted by S (Hill) Willson
Perhaps he had already advanced money to her during his lifetime and so considered her portion as previously given?
posted by Jen (Stevens) Hutton
Unfortunately the source (at least the one I have seen) seems to a summary/abstract of the will, so we can't tell whether the will named the daughters...
posted by Ellen Smith
The cited findagrave has DOB 2 years before the one on profile. Wikidata also shows a date discrepancy.
posted by Tim Prince
We seek original or at least contemporaneous records for vitals. We do not rely on either FindAGrave or WikiData. I encourage PGM volunteers not to waste their time on either. The exception is that a FindaGrave profile has a photograph of a gravestone that was placed at the time of the person's death-- the photographed gravestone can be cited as a source for a death and a burial location.
posted by Jillaine Smith
Even though I volunteer periodically with Find A Grave as a photographer, I have to second the recommendation that for genealogical purposes, the site is consistently reliable _only_ for death/burial dates; and even there, only where there's a contemporaneous gravestone shown. FAG's best service is to offer photography, on request, of existing headstones and monuments. That is what I regard as its true purpose.

The transcribed birth/baptismal record for John Gollippe [sic], son of John, is presumably this one: "England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VC5Y-W55 : 7 December 2017), John Gollippe, 1620; Christening, citing Bridport, Bridport, Dorset, England, Record Office, Dorchester; FHL microfilm 2,427,422.

posted by Christopher Childs
edited by Christopher Childs
Gallop-455 and Gallop-261 do not represent the same person because: Unless someone can review Parsons, Gerald James "John Gallop/Gollop of Bridport, Dorsetshire, England, and Boston, Massachusetts" The American Genealogist 68:11-13 (1993) where the suggestion there was a second John comes from, I'm rejecting this match.
posted by Whitney Rapp
I added more details from that TAG article to the Gallop-455 profile. It is apparent that there were two different sons named John baptized in Bridport.

Also, the John who had a child baptized in 1644 (this man) could not be the one born in 1630.

posted by Ellen Smith