I heare my son and daughter Gallup have write to you about that money which is due to you by my father's will [Edmund Reade]. I would intreat you to bee as healpfull as you can in it.
I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Hannah Gallup, and her children, all my land at New London, also my best gowne and my red cloth petty coat, and my enamiled ring; and after her decease, my will is that my grand-daughter, Hannah Gallop, shall have the said ring. Also I give unto my grand-daughter, Hannah Gallop, a pare of sheetes and one of my best pewter platters, and one of the next.
The will was probated September 24, 1672.
Upon the Petition of Mrs. Hanna Gallop, and as a recompense for great losses she hath sustained, this Court do see cause to grant unto ye said Mrs. Gallop aforesaid, and to her heirs, ye sum of Two Hundred Acres of Land, which she may take up in two places, provided she do not take it where it may prejudice any former grant to any particular person or plantation. A true copy of Record, examined. Per H. Wyllys, Secretary.
1680 - February 28 - Stonington, CT - Hannah received a deed for 100 acres of land.
Layed out to widow Gallup One Hundred Acres of Land, more or less, bounded as followeth: Beginning at a birch tree, marked on four sides, from thence running east nearest one hundred rods to a crooked white oak tree, marked on four sides, standing on ye east side of a swamp; from thence running south nearest eight score rods to a great black oak tree marked on four sides; from thence running west nearest one hundred rods to a white oak tree marked on four sides, and from thence upon a direct line to ye tree first mentioned; this tract of land with allowance for highways we say layed out by us surveighors. John Fish, Gershom Palmer. This was entered Feb. 16, 1708/09.
1698 - October 13 - Hartford, CT - The heirs of John Gallop received 300 acres:
At a General Assemby holden at Hartford . . . This court appoints Mr. Nehemiah Palmer, Ensign Ephraim Minor to lay out to the heirs of Captain John Gallop the three hundred acres of land granted to him by this Court according to his grant.
Three Hundred Acres of land, laid out to ye heirs of Captain John Gallop, deceased, to say to Mr. John Gallop, Mr. Adam Gallop and Ensign Wm. Gallop, by virtue of a grant from ye Generall Court to Captain John Gallop aforesaid, and Mrs. Hannah Gallop and heirs, the bounds thereof are as followeth: Beginning near a place called Pe-ag-wompsh River, near three miles east from the northern most end of Egonk hill upon a branch of Moosup's River, beginning at a white oak staddle upon ye south side of ye river, the said staddle is near to a pine and is marked on four sides, it being about ten or twelve rods south from the river; thence east a hundred rods to a pine tree marked on four sides; thence north and by east a hundred and sixty-five rods to a white oak tree marked on four sides; thence west a hundred rods to a white oak tree marked on four sides; thence to ye first mentioned tree. The second hundred begins at a white oak tree and thence runs north a hundred and sixty rods to a white oak tree; from thence west and be south a hundred rods to a white oak; thence a hundred and sixty rods south to a white oak near to where a little brook falls into the river; thence to ye first mentioned tree, all of said trees being marked on four sides. The third hundred begins at a red oak tree, by the north side of ye river; thence a hundred rods north, bounded on ye second hundred westerly to a white oak tree; thence east a hundred and sixty-five rods to a pine tree; thence south to ye said river; and is bounded partly with ye country land and partly by ye first hundred to the river, and by the river to ye first mentioned tree; the said trees are all marked on four sides; ye above said lands laid out and bounded this ninth day of January 1707-08 by me, John Prentts, County Surveyor
[staddle - a stone, especially one resembling a mushroom in shape, supporting a framework or rick - could be a stack of stones]
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