The immigrant progenitor of this family and the earliest known ancestor of both Mr. and Mrs. Allyn was Robert Allyn, a resident, of Salem, Mass., in 1637, who, obtaining a land grant, removed to New London in 1651, and settled at Allyn's Point on the east side of the river. In 1665 he kept store there. He was subsequently one of the first company of Norwich purchasers, and lived for some years in the west part of the town, being in office from 1661 to 1669. He died in this city in 1683, at the age of seventy-five years, leaving a son, John, who received a legacy of one hundred and thirty-three pounds, and four daughters, each of whom received half of that amount. John Allyn, the son, married Elizabeth Gager, of New Norwich; and in 1691 he removed to Allyn's Point, where he died in 1709, leaving an estate of twelve hundred and seventy-eight pounds to his son Robert and daughter Elizabeth. Robert, son of John, married Deborah Avery, and died in 1730, leaving nine children. His son Robert occupied the same place, and died in 1760, leaving worldly possessions to the amount of three thousand pounds. This third Robert Allyn, who represented the fourth generation, was born January 25, 1697, in Groton, Conn., and married in 1725 Abigail Avery. Their sons, Robert, Nathan, Simeon, and Timothy, were soldiers in the Revolutionary War, Simeon and Timothy being Captains. Captain Simeon Allyn was killed at Fort Griswold on September 6, 1781, in his thirty-seventh year. Timothy was a worthy Deacon of the Congregational church. He died in Agawam, Mass., June 26, 1838, at the age of ninety years. Nathan Allyn, who was born June 5, 1740, was one of the first to enter Fort Griswold after the British left; and he helped extinguish the fire set to blow up the fort. He migrated to Ohio in 1805 with all his children, going from Granville, Mass., to what they named Granville, Ohio, where he died in 1814, at the age of seventy-four. Nathan's son Freeman was Mrs. Allyn's grandfather.

Captain Lyman Allyn, son of Freeman Allyn and father of Mrs. Harriet U. Allyn, was a master mariner in the whaling trade at the age of twenty-one years. In 1833 he left the sea, becoming an outfitter with the Messrs. Billings. He married Emma Turner, who was born in New London, Conn., August 31, 1804, daughter of Captain John and Mary (Newson) Turner and grand-daughter of Robert Newson, an English sea captain and a resident of Groton, Conn. Her father, Captain John Turner, was born in Stonington, Conn., June 15, 1769. Captain Lyman Allyn and his wife had six children, a son and five daughters, of whom Harriet U. was the youngest. One daughter died in early life; and Emma Ann, a maiden lady, passed away on October 29, 1877. The son, John Turner Allyn, was a seaman. He retired to a farm on account of poor health, and died on February 23, 1887, at the age of forty-nine. He left a widow, Lucretia L. Brown before marriage. Mrs. Harriet U. Allyn and her sisters, Mrs. Mary T. A. Henry and Charlotte C., are the only survivors of the family. Their father died on April 8, 1874, and their mother on February 4, 1881, at the age of seventy-seven years. Mrs. Allyn has lived at her present fine residence on the Norwich road since 1851. The house is a large stone mansion, surrounded by beautiful lawns and choice shrubbery, and was built seventy-one years ago. Her father bought it with a sixty-acre farm, to which he added forty acres more, making one hundred acres.

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