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Brief Biographical Sketch:

Obadiah Allyn (1670) / Elizabeth (Sanford) Allyn

Name: Obadiah Allyn

Birth: c. 1644, Windsor, Conn. (Hale, House & Related Families/Jacobus)

Emigration: To Middletown c. 1670. (HMC)

Death: April 7, 1712, Middletown, Conn. (BCVR)

Occupation & Public Service: Farmer; chosen deacon of the church on May 31, 1704. (Records of First Church of Christ, Congregational, Middletown, Conn.)

Marriage: m. (1) Elizabeth Sanford, October 21, 1669, Milford, Conn. (bp. August 27, 1648, Milford, Conn.; d. abt. 1706, Middletown, Conn.) She was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Sanford of Milford, Conn. (SAV) m. (2) Mary (Savage) Wetmore, abt. 1707, Middletown, Conn. (b. June 25, 1663, Middletown, Conn.; d. October 20, 1723, Middletown, Conn.) She was the daughter of John Savage and Elizabeth (Dubbin) Savage of Middletown, Conn. (SMFSD In-Depth First Settler Profile: John Savage)

Children: 10 children between 1670-1688. (BCVR, MLR) (See in-depth profile in Member Area for details.)

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The First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. The engraving below by W.C. Butler was a fanciful illustration for David Field's Centennial Address published in 1853. In 1939 the image was used on the title page of The Log Cabin Myth by Harold R. Shurtleff. Surrounding the engraving are signatures of some of the first settlers as found on wills and deeds by Charles C. Adams in preparation of Middletown Upper Houses (1908).