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• Name: Madeleine Alleyn
• Name: Madeleine Hélène
• _UID: 8BDCADAC40BCD51189730060081E6327AE79
• Religion: Bef 1704, Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts; a Puritan
• Misc: 29 Feb 1704, Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts; she was captured by a French and Inidan raiding party
• Baptised: 30 May 1705, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Marie Madeleine Helene; Address:
  Saint Anne de Bellevue
• Occupation: Abt 1706, Baie D'Urfe, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; servant
• Religion: Aft 1705, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Catholic; Address:
  Saint Anne de Bellevue
• Naturalization: May 1710, Baie D'Urfe, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Residence: 1727, Les Cedres, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada

Notes:

On February 29, 1704 a force of 50 French soldiers and 200 Abenakis Indians under the command of Hertel de Rouville attacked the town of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Deerfield was a town of 300 residents at that time and was the northwesternmost settlement in New England. In the attack, 56 residents were killed and 109 taken prisoner and half of the buildings burned. Among the prisoners was a 12 year old girl named Sarah Allen. Sarah was one of nine children of the Allen family of Deerfield. The Allens lived in one of the fourteen houses located in the southern part of Deerfield. This area was not penetrated by the attack, however it appears that Sarah was away from home at the time of the attack and was taken prisoner. The prisoners were marched from Deerfield to Montreal. It took them until early April to reach Fort Chambly.

Sarah was taken to Kahanawake and kept there for a while before being sold to Jean Quenet, a Montreal merchant. Jean was a successful merchant with property in Lachine and Montreal. He imported fashions from Paris. One of his properties was at Baie D'Urfe and that is where Sarah worked as a domestic. On 30 May 1705, Sarah was baptized by the Jesuits and renamed Marie Madeleine Helene before her godfather Pierre Lamoureux and her godmother Etiennette Hurtubise, the wife of Jean Quenet. She was then placed as a domestic in the house of Jean Quenet at Baie D'Urfe. During the following years John Sheldon led three expeditions to Canada to rescue the captives. Edward Allen, Sarah's father, was a member of the third expedition in 1707. He was in Montreal in August 1707. War broke out between France and England during this time however, and they were prevented from completing their mission. There is no record that Edward Allen visited Sarah or, if he did, what the result was. Sarah had 2 brothers; Edward 20, and Samuel 5 and 4 sisters; Mercy 18, Martha 13, Jemima 10 and Hannah in Deerfield at the time of the raid.

Sarah was an educated young lady, as she could sign her marriage certificate and Guillaume could not.

Baptised:
She was baptised by the Jesuits.

Occupation:
She worked in the home of Jean Quenet which was located two farms away from the Lalonde farm.

Naturalization:
She was granted citizenship in New France by King Louis IV of France. Her name on in the Lettres de Naturalité in the Canadian Archives was spelled Magdelaine allyn

Sarah married Guillaume DE LALONDE, dit L'Espérance on 27 Apr 1710 in Bout-De-L'Ile, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Guillaume (son of Jean DE LALONDE, dit L'Espérance and Marie BARBANT) was born on 21 Aug 1684 in Quebec, Canada; died on 21 Aug 1752 in Saint Joseph de Soulanges, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada; was buried about 23 Aug 1752 in Saint Joseph de Soulanges, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Marriage Contract:
Signed before Notary Raimbault Sr.

1. Edouard LALONDE was born on 6 May 1712 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; died on 12 Aug 1778 in Saint Joseph de Soulanges, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada.
2. Marie-Louise LALONDE was born on 8 Nov 1713 in Pointe Claire, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; died on 24 Oct 1714 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
3. Louis-Joseph LALONDE was born in 1715 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; died on 3 Nov 1777 in Saint Joseph de Soulanges, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada.
4. Andre LALONDE was born on 9 Apr 1717 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; died on 16 Feb 1800 in Saint Joseph de Soulanges, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada.
5. Albert LALONDE was born on 27 May 1719 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 27 May 1719 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
6. Marie-Francois LALONDE was born on 2 Jul 1721 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 2 Jul 1721 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and died.
7. Marie-Josephe LALONDE was born on 12 Mar 1724 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 12 Mar 1724 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and died.
8. Joseph-Marie LALONDE was born on 19 Nov 1725 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 19 Nov 1725 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and died.
9. Genevieve LALONDE was born on 27 Oct 1727 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 27 Oct 1727 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and died.
10. Guillaume LALONDE was born on 19 Jun 1730 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; died on 24 Mar 1792 in Les Cedres, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 26 Mar 1792 in Les Cedres, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada.
11. Marie-Anne LALONDE was christened on 31 Jul 1732 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and died.
12. Jean-Baptiste LALONDE was christened on 16 Jun 1734 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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• Occupation: Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts; clerk of the market for many years and Town Clerk from 1704-1712
• _UID: 679C54857ABED51189730060081E6327066E

Notes:

Edward Allen, Jr., married, 24 November 1683, Mercy Painter. Sheldon, in History of Deerfield, Mass., says that "her mother was a Lamberton of New Haven." Her grandson (son of Samuel Allen) was named after her family, Lamberton Allen. The researches of Mr. Francis B. Trowbridge, genealogist, of New Haven, Conn., and of Mr. Harry I. Thompson, the artist and genealogist, of New Haven, and who has made a special study of West Haven families, -- the Painter family in particular, -- have established the descent of Mrs. Mercy (Painter) Allen through Thomas Painter1, Shubael Painter,2 Mercy Painter,3.

Edward married Mercy PAINTER on 24 Nov 1683. Mercy (daughter of Shubael PAINTER and Mercy LAMBERTON) was born on 3 Feb 1664 in New Haven, Connecticut; died on 1 Sep 1740 in Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Edward Allyn
• Occupation: Ipswich, Massachusetts; weaver
• _UID: 809FE47F4AD2D51189730060081E63279059

Notes:

Willard, in History of Greenfield, Mass., states that in 1686 John and Edward Allen had grants of twenty acre lots on the Deer River; that Edward Allen's house, built of heavy hewn logs, was where the High School now stands, and was a fort and public house; that Rev. Mr. Newton lived there after he was settled.

In History of Greenfield, page 61, Willard says that among the choice spirits and friends of the American cause in the Revolutionary War were the Arms, Smeads, Allens, and others.

Edward married Sarah KIMBALL on 24 Oct 1658 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Richard KIMBAL and Ursule SCOTT) was born in 1635 in Watertown, Massachusetts; died on 12 Jun 1696 in Suffield, Ma. [Group Sheet]

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• Occupation: 1688, Westerly, Rhode Island; Constable

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Birth:
17 Jan 1639 or 1640

Occupation:
SHUBAEL PAINTER, 1669, Westerly, R. I.; 1670-1672, Deputy; 1671, took oath of allegiance; 1688, Constable. (Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island.)

Shubael married Mercy LAMBERTON on 24 Nov 1663. Mercy (daughter of Captain George LAMBERTON and Margaret LEWYN) was born on 17 Jan 1640 in New Haven, Connecticut; and died. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 17 Jan 1641

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Baptism:
Shubael Painter married Mercy Lamberton, who was baptized 17 January 1641 and was the daughter of Capt. George Lamberton of the "Phantom Ship," by his wife Margaret.

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• Emigration: 30 Apr 1634, Rattlesdan, Suffolk, England

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Emigration:
Emigrated 30 Apr 1634 to New England, arrived aboard "Elizabeth" of Ipswich with his wife Ursule (or Ursula) Scott.

Richard married Ursule SCOTT about 1611 in Rattlesdan, Suffolk, England. Ursule (daughter of Henry SCOTT and Martha WHOTLOCK) was born about 14 Feb 1596 in Rattlesdan, Suffolk, England; died between 1639 and 1661 in Ma. [Group Sheet]

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Birth:
1596/1597

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Died:
Drowned

Thomas married Katherine. Katherine was born about 1612; died in 1691. [Group Sheet]

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• Occupation: 1642, New Haven Colony, Connecticut; Sea Captain

Notes:

Atwater's History of the Colony of New Haven contains a map of New Haven in 1641, on which Capt. Lamberton's residence is shown on the north side of State Street, next to the lot on the north east corner of State and George Streets. The eight squares were distinguished by the name of some prominent person who lived in the quarter to which their names were respectively applied, and the southeast quarter was thus designated by the name of Capt. Lamberton. His quarter of outlands covered all the land between Washington Street and the harbor. In 1644, in conjunction with Mr. Malbon and Mr. Evance, he contracted with the town to dig a channel "for bringing boats, at least to the end of the Street beside William Preston's house."

The following accounts of him and his expedition to Delaware Bay and of the Phantom ship are from Atwater's History of the Colony of New Haven:

George Lamberton, who lived next south of Sergeant Jeffrey, was one of the nine proprietors, who, in the schedule of 1641, are rated at one thousand pounds. Of these nine, however, five were non-resident, and soon ceased to pay rates. So that Lamberton was one of four planters who were excelled only by Theophilus Eaton in the amount of their estates. He was from his first appearance in the plantation a mariner, and lost his life in the ship which, under his command, left the harbor of New Haven in January, 1646, and was never afterward heard from. He is mentioned by Ezekiel Rogers in a letter to Gov. Winthrop, in a manner which suggests that he had been one of Rogers' flock. His influence as a man of mind and of substance may have principally occasioned the large secession of Yorkshiremen who refused to return to the Bay when sent for by Rogers. at New Haven, "there was a purchase made by some particular persons of sundry plantations in Delaware Bay, at their own charge, for the advancement of public good, as in a way of trade, so also for the settling of churches and plantations in those parts in combination with this. And thereupon it was propounded to the general court, whether plantations should be settled in Delaware Bay in combination with this town, -- yea or nay; and, upon consideration and debate, it was assented unto by the Court, and expressed by holding up of hands." This attempt to establish an English settlement in Delaware Bay encountered opposition from the Dutch and from the Swedes, both of whom claimed exclusive jurisdiction in those waters, and, though contending one with the other, united in resisting the English. In 1642 the governor of New Amsterdam "despatched an armed force, and with great hostility burned the English trading houses, violently seized and for a time detained their goods, and would not give them time to take an inventory of them. The Dutch also took the company's boat, and a number of the English planters whom they kept as prisoners. The damages done to the English at Delaware were estimated at a thousand pound sterling."

The same year the Swedish governor seized and imprisoned George Lamberton, "master of the pinnace called the Cock," and some of his seamen, on a false charge of inciting the Indians to rise against the Swedes. Finding himself unable to support the charge, he improved the opportunity to impose a fine for trading at Delaware, though within the limits of the New Haven purchase. Not long after, Mr. Lamberton, happening to be at New Amsterdam, was compelled by the Dutch governor to give an account of all the beaver he had purchased at the New Haven trading post in Delaware Bay, and to pay an impost upon the whole.

The next year, New Haven becoming confederate with the other New England colonies, the commissioners of the United Colonies sent letters of remonstrance to the Dutch and the Swedes, and gave Lamberton a commission to treat with the Swedish governor in their name about satisfaction for the injuries done him, and about the settlement of an English plantation in Delaware Bay.

Commerce between New Haven and the mother-country was chiefly carried on by way of Boston and Barbados. Bills of exchange on London were purchased with beaver-skins and other products of New England exported from Boston, or with sugar procured by barter in Barbados. The funds thus obtained were invested in English goods, sometimes by the New Haven merchants in person when visiting their native land, but usually by their correspondents residing in London. These English goods were sent out in the ships which sailed every spring for Massachusetts Bay, and at Boston were re-shipped to New Haven.

Allusion has been made to three vessels, which in 1639 came to New Haven direct from England. We have now to speak of an attempt made at New Haven to establish at a later date a direct trade with the mother-country. Such an achievement was regarded as beyond the ability of any individual, and yet so desirable as to demand a general combination of effort. A company was formed, in which apparently all who were able to help, took more or less stock. This company, called "The Ship Fellowship," bought or built a ship which they made ready for sea in January, 1646. She was chartered for a voyage to London, by another association called "The Company of Merchants of New Haven." The members of the ship-fellowship were "Mr. Wakeman, Mr. Atwater, Mr. Crane, and Goodman Miles." The company of merchants consisted of "Mr. Theophilus Eaton (now Governor), Mr. Stephen Goodyear, Mr. Richard Malbon, and Mr. Thomas Gregson." Winthrop says, "She was laden with pease and some wheat, all in bulk, with about two hundred West India hides, and store of beaver and plate, so as it was estimated in all at five thousand pounds." Seventy persons embarked in her, some of whom were counted among the most valued inhabitants of New Haven. Dr. Bacon has graphically depicted the departure of the vessel, and the solicitude felt for her safety by those whom she left behind.:--"In the month of January, 1646, the harbor being frozen over, a passage is cut through the ice, with saws, for three miles; and the 'great ship' on which so much depends is out upon the waters and ready to begin her voyage. Mr. Davenport and a great company of the people go out upon the ice, to give the last farewell to their friends. The pastor in solemn prayer commends them to the protection of God, and they depart. The winter passes away; the ice-bound harbor breaks into ripples before the soft breezes of the spring. Vessels from England arrive on the coast; but they bring no tidings of the New Haven ship. Vain is the solicitude of wives and children, of kindred and friends. Vain are all inquiries.

'They ask the waves, and ask the felon winds,
And question every gust of rugged winds
That blows from off each beaked premonitory'

"Month after month, hope waits for tidings. Affection, unwilling to believe the worst, frames one conjecture and another to account for the delay. Perhaps they have been blown out of their track upon some undiscovered shore, from which they will by and by return, to surprise us with their safety; perhaps they have been captured, and are now in confinement. How many prayers are offered for the return of that ship, with its priceless treasures of life and affection! At last anxiety gradually settles down into despair. Gradually they learn to speak of the wise and public-spirited Gregson, the brave and soldier-like Turner, the adventurous Lamberton, that 'right godly woman' the wife of Mr. Goodyear, and the others, as friends whose faces are never more to be seen among the living. In November, 1647, their estates are settled, and they are put upon record as deceased."

So much interest is felt in Lamberton's ship that I have felt inclined to bring together what the early writers have recorded concerning the vessel herself and concerning the atmospheric phenomenon which the superstition of the times connected with her loss.

Winthrop mentions her thrice. When the news of her departure had reached Boston, he records that "this was the earliest and sharpest winter we had since we arrived in the country, and it was as vehement cold to the southwards here," adding, as one illustration, "At New Haven, a ship bound for England was forced to be cut out of the ice three miles." In the following June, when solicitude had nearly or quite given place to despair, he writes, "There fell a sad affliction upon the country this year, though it more particularly concerned New Haven and those parts. A small ship of about one hundred tons set out from New Haven in the middle of the eleventh month last, (the harbor being then so frozen as they were forced to hew her through the ice near three miles). She was laden with pease and some wheat, all in bulk, with about two hundred West India hides, and store of beaver and plate, so as it was estimated in all at five thousand pounds. There were in her about seventy persons, whereof divers were of very precious account, as Mr. Gregson, one of their magistrates, the wife of Mr. Goodyear, another of their magistrates (a right godly woman), Captain Turner, Mr. Lamberton, master of the ship, and some seven or eight others; members of the church there. The ship never went voyage before, and was very crank-sided, so as it was conceived she was overset in a great tempest which happened soon after she put to sea, for she was never heard of after." Two years afterward, that is, in June, 1648, he writes, as if the news had just reached him, "There appeared over the harbor at New Haven, in the evening, the form of the keel of a ship with three masts, to which were suddenly added the tackling and sails, and presently after, upon the top of the poop, a man standing with one hand akimbo under his left side, and in his right hand a sword stretched out toward the sea. Then from the side of the ship which was from the town arose a great smoke which covered all the ship and in that smoke she vanished away; but some saw her keel sink into the water. This was seen by many, men and women, and it continued about a quarter of an hour."

Capt. George Lamberton died at sea in 1646/47 and was immortalized by Longfellow in his poem "The Phantom Ship".

The Phantom Ship
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In Mather's Magnalia Christi,
Of the old colonial time,
May be found in prose the legend
That is here set down in ryhme.
A ship sailed from New Haven,
And the keen and frosty airs,
That filled her sails at parting,
were heavy with good men's prayer.

"O Lord if it be thy pleasure"--
Thus prayed the old divine--
"To bury our friends in the ocean,
Take them, for they are thine!"

But Master Lamberton muttered,
And under his breath said he,
"This ship is so crank and walty,
I fear our grave she will be!"

And the ships that came from England,
When the winter months were gone,
Brought no tidings of this vessel
Nor of Master Lamberton.

This put the people to praying
that the Lord would let them hear
What in his greater wisdom
He had done with friends so dear.

And at last their prayers were answered:
It was in the month of June,
An hour before the sunset
Of a windy afternoon,

When, steadily steering landward,
A ship was seen below,
And they knew it was Lamberton, Master,
Who sailed long ago.

On she came, with a cloud of canvas,
Right against the wind that blew
Until the eye could distinguish
The faces of the crew.

Then fell her straining topmasts,
Hanging tangled in the shrouds,
And her sails were loosened and lifted,
And blown away like the clouds.

And the masts, with all their rigging,
Fell slowly, one by one,
And the hulk dilated and vanished,
As sea-mist in the sun!
And the people who saw this marvel
Each said unto his friend,
That this was the mould of their vessel,
And thus her tragic end.

And the pastor of the village
Gave thanks to God in prayer,
That, to quiet their troubled spirits,
He had sent this Ship of Air.

Occupation:
Captain Lamberton was the subject of a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow title "The Phantom Ship".

[partial quote]
A ship sailed from New Haven,
And the keen and frosty airs,
That filled her sails at parting,
Were heavy with good men's prayers.
"O Lord! if it be thy pleasure"--
Thus prayed the old divine--
"To bury our friends in the ocean,
Take them, for they are thine!"
But Master Lamberton muttered,
And under his breath said he,
"This ship is so crank and walty
I fear our grave she will be!"

In 1642, fifty families on a ship captained by George Lamberton settled at the mouth of Schuylkill River around to establish the trading post at what is today Philadelphia. The Dutch and Swedes who were already in the area burned their buildings. A court in New Sweden was to convict Lamberton of "trespassing, conspiring with the Indians."

Died:
He was Captain of a ship conducting trade among the colonies and England. He was the subject of a poem by Henry Longfellow titled "The Sea Witch".

George married Margaret LEWYN on 6 Jan 1628 in Saint Mary's, Whitechapel, London, England. Margaret (daughter of Henry LEWYN and Tancke SAGE) was born about 1608 in London, England; and died. [Group Sheet]

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