Abraham ALLING, Blacksmith of Marblehead, Massachusetts, and Oyster Bay by Barbara A. Barth Continued in the July 1998 issue of the Record (Vol. 123, Number 3): 2. THOMAS(2) ALLING (Abraham 1), blacksmith, born about 1670, probably at Marblehead, married Elizabeth Weekes, daughter of Thomas(2) (Francis 1) and Isabella (Harcourt) Weekes, before 25 September 1698 when her father deeded land in the town of Oyster Bay to his eldest daughter Elizabeth Alling and son-in-law Thomas Alling. [34] He is last seen in the Oyster Bay records 1 May 1716 when, as a blacksmith of Hempstead, he acknowledged a deed dated 16 February 1714/15, for land he sold to his brother Abraham. [35] This was the same land he had bought from his father 26 April 1698. [36] His earmark was recorded in Hempstead 9 March 1722/3; that of his son Thomas had been entered there 1 December 1722. [37] This is the last record found for Thomas (Sr.) The children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Weekes) Alling are given below as listed by George W. Cocks in his Alling manuscript. [38] All were probably born at Oyster Bay: i. Thomas(3), b. about 1699; will dated at Jerusalem, Hempstead, 21 Mar. 1776, proved 18 Mar. 1782. [39] He m. before 14 Nov. 1722 Elizabeth Seaman, dau. of Thomas and Mary (--) Seaman. [40] His will names his wife; children Freelove(4), wife of Amos Bedle, and Letitia, wife of Benjamin Seaman; granddaughter Jerusha Powell (of dau. Jerusha, deceased); and grandson Benjamin Laurence. ii. (?)Sarah, b. about 1702, d. 11 Nov. 1775; m. about 1723 John Seaman of Jerusalem, Hempstead, son of Thomas and Mary (--) Seaman, d. 11 May 1757. [41] His will, dated 5 May, proved 28 May 1757, mentions wife Sarah and children Elizabeth, Zebulon, Mary Smith, John, Thomas. [42] iii. Isabella, b. about 1705, m. 30 Oct. 1730 St. George's Church, Hempstead, [43] Samuel Seaman, son of Samuel and Phebe (Hicks) Seaman of Hempstead. His will, dated 11 May 1754 and proved 28 Oct. 1754, does not mention his wife, but names daughters Anne, Margaret, Isabel, and Millicent, all apparently unm. [44] 34 OBTR 2:237-38. 35 Ibid., 4:5-7. 36 See above, REC. 129:79 37 Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, New York, ed. Benjamin D. Hicks, 8 vols., 1897, 2:222, 223. Thomas Sr.'s mark was formerly John Jackson's. 38 See above, REC. 129:76, note 2. 39 Abstracts of Wills, 17 vols., Collections of the New-York Historical Society 1892-1908 [hereafter WNYHS], 10:221, abstracting N.Y. Co. Wills 34:501; he made his will as "Thomas Allen." 40 Her father's will of that date names dau. Elizabeth, WNYHS 2:306, abstracting N.Y. Co. Wills 10:12; Mary Thomas Seaman, The Seaman Family in America (1928), p. 42. 41 Mary Powell Bunker, Long Island Genealogies (1895), 145-46; Seaman, Seaman Family, 59; however, no primary source has been found for the maiden name or parentage of John Seaman's wife Sarah. 42 WNYHS 5:181-82, abstracting N.Y. Co. Wills 20:306. 43 John Sylvanus Haight, Adventures for God (1932), p. 155. 44 N.Y. Co. Wills 19:155-57, abstracted WNYHS 5:41-42; Bunker, Long Island Genealogies, 145, and Seaman, Seaman Family, 58 (both without citing a source), say children were Phoebe, Charity, Samuel, Deborah, Amelia, Margaret and Anna. [Record 129:183] Lindsey Ottman NYC, NY -----Original Message----- From: Jim Rubins <jmrubins@napanet.net> To: SEAMAN-L@rootsweb.com <SEAMAN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, February 14, 1999 9:49 AM Subject: [SEAMAN-L] Article in the New York Gen. & Bio. Record in 1998 >I finally received my issue of the New York Gen. & Bio. Record. Included >was an index from 1998. In the index it mentions 26 SEAMAN family members >either on page 183 or in the footnote. > >I deduce that the article is named: "Abraham ALLING, Blacksmith of >Marblehead, Massachusetts, and Oyster Bay" and it is in three parts. It is >the middle part [I suspect APRIL issue] that begins on page 183. > >I do not have access to that issue. Would somebody that does have access to >that issue let us know what is on page 183 and the footnote to 183? > >Thank you! >Jim Rubins >