Gallup Family

Generation 1

John Gallop (Reference # 5184) was born 1590 at Mosterton, Dorsetshire, England and died 11 January 1649/50 at Boston, Suffolk Co., MA. His occupation was that of Ship Owner and Pilot in the coastal New England trade. He departed Plymouth, England 20 March 1629/30 aboard the Mary and John and arrived in New England 30 May 1630. He married Christobel Brushett (Reference # 5185) 19 January 1617 at St. Mary's Church, Bridgeport, Dorsetshire, England. She was born c1594 at Mosterton, Dorsetshire, England and died 27 September 1655 at Boston, Suffolk Co., MA. She arrived in Boston with their children 4 September 1633 aboard the Griffin. For information on their ancestry see Paul B. McBride's Genealogy Page. They had the following children:
  1. Joan Gallop
  2. John Gallop, Jr.
  3. William Gallop
  4. Samuel Gallop
  5. Nathaniel Gallop

Generation 2

Capt. John Gallop, Jr. (Reference # 2592) was born 1618 at Bridgeport, Dorsetshire, England and was baptised 25 January 1619/20 at St. Mary's, Mosterton, Dorsetshire, England. He died 19 December 1675 at Narragansett Fort (now South Kingston, RI) while participating in the Narragansett Swamp Fight during King Philip's War and was buried near the scene of the fight. He arrived in Boston, MA aboard the Griffin 4 September 1633. He was a Ship Owner and took part in the coastal New England trade. He married Ann or Hannah Lake (Reference # 2593) 1643 at Boston, Suffolk Co., MA. She was baptised 3 July 1621 at North Benfleet, Essex, England and died 19 December 1675 at Stonington, New London Co., CT. She arrived in New England aboard the Abigail 6 October 1635. She is buried at Whitehall Cemetery, Mystic, CT. For information on her ancestry see the Lake Family. They had the following children:
  1. Elizabeth Gallup
  2. Hannah Gallup
  3. John Gallup III
  4. Esther or Hester Gallup/Gallop
  5. Benadam Gallup
  6. Lt. William Gallup
  7. Samuel Gallup
  8. Christobel Gallup
  9. Mary Gallup
  10. Mary Gallup
  11. Margaret Gallup

Generation 3

Benadam Gallup I (Reference # 1296) was born 1655 at Stonington, (now New London Co.), CT and died 2 August 1727 at Stonington, New London Co., CT. He was a Farmer by occupation. He married Esther or Hesther Prentice/Prentiss (Reference # 1297) c1682 at CT. She was born 20 July 1660 at Roxbury, Suffolk Co., MA and died 17 May 1751 at Stonington, New London Co., CT. For information on her ancestry see the Prentice Family. Both were buried at Whitehall Cemetery, Mystic, CT. They had the following children:
  1. Hannah Gallup
  2. Esther Gallup
  3. Marcy Gallup
  4. Thomas Gallup
  5. Mercy Gallup
  6. Benadam Gallup II
  7. Joseph Gallup
  8. Margaret Gallup
  9. Lucy Gallup

Generation 4

Lt. Benadam Gallup II (Reference # 648) was born 18 April 1693 in the part of New London that is now Groton, New London Co., CT and died 30 September 1755 at Groton, New London Co., CT. He served in the French and Indian Wars. He married Eunice Cobb (Reference # 649) 11 January 1716 at Stonington, New London Co., CT. She was born 18 September 1693 at Barnstable, Barnstable Co., MA and died 1 February 1759 at Groton, New London Co., CT. For information on her ancestry see the Cobb Family. Both were buried at the Gallup Cemetery, Ledyard, New London Co., CT. They had the following children:
  1. BenAdam Gallup III
  2. Esther Gallup
  3. Eunice Gallup (twin)
  4. Lois Gallup (twin)
  5. William Gallup
  6. Henry Gallup
  7. Nathan Gallup
  8. Ebenezer Gallup
  9. Thomas Prentice Gallup
  10. Hannah Gallup
  11. Sarah Gallup

Generation 5

Col. BenAdam Gallup III (Reference # 324) was born 26 October 1716 at Groton, New London Co., CT and died 29 March 1800 at Groton, New London Co., CT. He was a veteran of the French and Indian Wars and of the American Revolutionary War. He married Hannah Avery (Reference # 325) 11 August 1740 at Groton, New London Co., CT. She was born 1 February 1719 at Groton, New London Co., CT and died 28 July 1799 at Groton, New London Co., CT. For information on her ancestry see the Avery Family. Both were buried in the Gallup Cemetery, Ledyard, CT. They had the following children:
  1. Col. Benadam Gallup IV
  2. Isaac Gallup
  3. Hannah Gallup
  4. Esther Gallup
  5. James Gallup
  6. Jesse Gallup
  7. John Gallup
  8. Prudence Gallup
  9. Lois Gallup
  10. Susan Gallup
  11. Josiah Gallup
  12. Abigail Gallup

Generation 6

Jesse Gallup (Reference # 162) was born 2 February 1750/1 at Groton, New London Co., CT and died 15 March 1822 at Groton, New London Co., CT. He served in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His occupation was Blacksmith. He married Catherine Fish (Reference # 163) 16 March 1775 at Groton, New London Co., CT. She was born 24 August 1753 at Groton, New London Co., CT and died 15 December 1825 at Groton, New London Co., CT. For information on her ancestry see the Fish Family. Both were buried in the Christopher Avery Cemetery, Ledyard, New London Co., CT. They had the following children:
  1. Peter A. Gallup
  2. Mary Gallup
  3. Hannah Gallup
  4. Jesse Gallup, Jr.
  5. Catherine Gallup
  6. Fanny Gallup
  7. Eunice Gallup
  8. Betsey Gallup
  9. Edmund T. Gallup

Generation 7

Fanny Gallup (Reference # 81) was born 13 December 1787 at Groton, New London Co., CT and died 28 October 1878 at Staten Island, Richmond Co., NY. She resided with her son Erastus Bills at Sheffield, IL 1858-1868 and at the Mariners Family Assylum on Staten Island 1868-1878. She married Phineas Bill (Reference # 80) 23 November 1817 at Groton, New London Co., CT. He was born 16 September 1789 at Groton (now Ledyard), New London Co., CT and was murdered 19 December 1839 at Assumption Parish, LA. For information on his ancestry see the Bill/Bills Family. They had the following children:
  1. Sabrina Taylor Bill
  2. Frank Wesley Bill
  3. Abby Bill
  4. Edwin Bill
  5. Erastus Denison Bill/Bills
  6. Adelia A. Bill
  7. Mary F. Bill
  8. Phineas Bill, Jr.

Sources

Citizen: An American Boy's Early Manhood Aboard a Sag Harbor Whale-Ship Chasing Delirium and Death Around the World, 1843-1849 Being the Story of Erastus Bill who Lived to Tell It by Erastus D. Bill; O.W. Frost, Anchorage, AK 1978

New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1985

Pedigree chart prepared by Don G. Olmstead

History of the Bill Family by Ledyard Bill, New York, 1867

Portion of diary of Erastus Denison Bill

Gallup Genealogy by Darwin C. Gallup and Josephine Middleton Peck, Gallup Family Association, 1966

Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England by John Farmer, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1994

History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, from its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, with a Genealogical Register of Stonington Families by Richard Anson Wheeler, Lawrence Verry Inc., Mystic, CT 1966

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31 October 1997