The family tree, part 8.

Lt. William Allis (freeman of Braintree 1640; commanded the Hatfield garrison 1676 – d. Sept 1678)

Ahnentafel #6152 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s father’s father (12 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established · Immigrant

William Allis became a freeman at Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1640 and removed to Hatfield about 1661. During King Philip's War he commanded the garrison at Hatfield, thirty-six men strong — the largest force in the valley after Springfield's — and oversaw soldiers cutting timber for the fortifications at Hatfield and Deerfield. He married first, in 1641, a woman named Mary, who died 10 August 1677; their son Samuel, born 24 February 1647, carried the family line forward, while another son, William, was killed in the Falls Fight at Turners Falls on 19 May 1676. Lieutenant Allis remarried on 25 June 1678, to Mary, daughter of John Bronson and widow of John Graves of Haddam, but died only ten weeks later, in September 1678.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HE HAS A MILITARY RECORD, AND IT IS A COMMAND — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-46]. Sheldon, VOLUME ONE, image 142, on the garrisoning of the valley in King Philip’s War: “Garrisons were established in the valley towns; thirty-nine men under Pynchon, at Springfield; twenty-nine at Westfield, under Capt. Aaron Cooke; twenty-six at Northampton, under Lieut. Wm. Clark; THIRTY-SIX AT HATFIELD, UNDER LIEUT. WM. ALLIS; and thirty remained at Hadley, under Capt. Poole.” The largest garrison in the valley after Springfield, and he had it. ⭐ Image 204: “six soldiers were ordered to Hatfield, to be under Lieut. Allis, and employed in the winter time in getting out timber for the fortifications at Hatfield and Deerfield.” ⭐ And image 209 confirms his death from a third direction — a 1680 Deerfield land redistribution notes in brackets: “[Lieut. Wm. Allis had died September, 1678.]” Boltwood said 6 September 1678; Sheldon says September 1678; the 1919 book agrees. Three authorities, one month. ⚠ And his lieutenancy is now a record, not a title in a genealogy — which is what the ‘Lt.’ on this node had been resting on. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ RE-GRADED ‘part’ → ‘ok’, 6 Aug 2026, AT ALEC’S CHALLENGE [AUDIT-01]. The colour grades WHO THIS PERSON IS AND WHOSE CHILD THEY ARE — not whether every fact about them is known. Loose ends belong in Outstanding, below, and this node has some. They do not make the ancestor uncertain. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ UPGRADED hyp → part, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-32] — BOLTWOOD’S OWN ENTRY, image 585: “1. ALLIS, William, freeman May 13, 1640, Braintree, rem. abt. 1661 to Hat., and d. Sept. 6, 1678. m. (1) Mary, who d. Aug. 10, 1677; m. (2) June 25, 1678, Mary, dau. of John Brownson, and wid. of John Graves, of Haddam, Ct. … Children — John, b. Mch. 5, 1642; SAMUEL, b. Feb. 24, 1647; Josiah, d. Oct. 15, 1651; Josiah, b. Oct. 20, 1651; William, b. Jan. 10, 1653, d. ae. 9 mos.; William, b. Jan. 10, 1656, SLAIN IN THE FALLS FIGHT, MAY 19, 1676; Hannah, m. June 28, 1670, William Scott; Mary, d. unm. Jan. 25, 1690.” Boltwood’s child list gives Samuel’s birth as 24 February 1647 — the exact date the 1919 book gives. Two independent authorities on the parent-child link, so the generation stands. ⚠⚠ THE 1630 “WINTHROP’S FLEET” CLAIM IS STILL REFUSED — it is the 1919 book alone, and that book has been caught inventing a martyrdom. Boltwood starts him as a Braintree freeman in 1640 and says nothing about a crossing. ⭐⭐ NEW, AND WORTH A LINE OF ITS OWN: a second son William, b. 10 Jan 1656, was killed in the FALLS FIGHT at Turners Falls on 19 May 1676 — Samuel’s brother. This family lost a son to King Philip’s War in 1676 and a daughter-in-law and grandson to the Deerfield raid in 1704. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 — GENERATION 13, the deepest this project has ever reached. “1. WILLIAM ALLIS was born between 1613 and 1616, probably in ESSEX or LONDON, England … and came to this country with WINTHROP’S FLEET in 1630.” Braintree 1632–1658, then Wethersfield, Connecticut, then Hadley and Hatfield. Lieutenant. Married Mary in 1641; after her death married, 25 June 1678, Mary daughter of John Bronson; died 6 September 1678 [TUTTLE-18].

Outstanding: ⚠⚠ ‘hyp’ ON PURPOSE. A single published genealogy, unverified against any record. ⚠ Our line runs through the FIRST wife, since Samuel was born 1647. ⚠⚠ BOLTWOOD DOES NOT SAY “WINTHROP’S FLEET” [TUTTLE-19]. He gives only “freeman May 13, 1640, Braintree, rem. abt. 1661 to Hat[field], and d. Sept. 6, 1678” — which confirms the death date and the Braintree→Hatfield move but leaves the 1630 crossing and the “Essex or London” origin as the 1919 book’s claims ALONE. Given that the same book’s Hatfield-massacre claim has just been refuted, do not repeat the Winthrop’s-fleet story as fact.

Mary (first wife of Lt. William Allis; m. 1641 – d. 10 August 1677)

Ahnentafel #6153 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s father’s mother (12 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Mary married William Allis in 1641 and bore him several children, among them Samuel, born 1647, from whom this family descends, and a son William, later killed in the Falls Fight of 1676. She died 10 August 1677. Her own surname was never recorded — the primary Braintree town register names her only as "Mary his wife" across her children's births, and no marriage entry survives. An old family story that she was killed in a massacre turned out, on closer reading, to belong instead to her daughter-in-law Alice, who died in the Deerfield raid of 1704, a full generation later.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ RE-GRADED ‘part’ → ‘ok’, 6 Aug 2026, AT ALEC’S CHALLENGE [AUDIT-01]. The colour grades WHO THIS PERSON IS AND WHOSE CHILD THEY ARE — not whether every fact about them is known. Loose ends belong in Outstanding, below, and this node has some. They do not make the ancestor uncertain. ⭐⭐⭐ UPGRADED hyp → part [TUTTLE-32]. Boltwood, image 585: “m. (1) Mary, who d. Aug. 10, 1677” — a dated death from an authority independent of the 1919 book, and our line runs through her, since Samuel was born in 1647. ⭐ Her husband remarried within the year — 25 June 1678, Mary, dau. of John Brownson and widow of John Graves of Haddam — and died ten weeks later. ——— Earlier note: ⛔⚠⚠ SELF-CORRECTION #12, made one turn after the error [TUTTLE-19]. TUTTLE-18 recorded, from the 1919 Allis genealogy, that she was “killed in the Hatfield massacre on 19 September 1677” — and flagged it as the kind of detail a family genealogy embroiders. It is WRONG and is WITHDRAWN. Boltwood: “m. (1) MARY, WHO D. AUG. 10, 1677.” She died on 10 August 1677 — five and a half weeks BEFORE the raid. She was already dead. Cause unknown.

Outstanding: ⭐ Her surname is now a CLOSED bounded negative, 7 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-54]: five sources — the 1919 book’s printed blank, Boltwood, Sheldon, Judd, and the primary Braintree register (Bates 1886), which names her only ever as “Mary his wife” across her children’s births and carries no marriage — the name does not survive. ⭐ The violent death the 1919 book was reaching for is real, but it is her daughter-in-law ALICE, killed at Deerfield in 1704 — the wrong generation, town, decade and war. ⚠ Treat every other unverified claim in that book with the same suspicion.

William Davis (c.1617 – 9 Dec 1683 (æ66), Roxbury, Mass.)

Ahnentafel #6156 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s father’s father (12 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

William Davis lived in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where a 1649 church record names his sons John, Samuel, and Joseph among the children of "William Davis whose wife was admitted" to the congregation. His son Samuel was later dismissed from the Roxbury church to Northampton. William Davis had two wives — Elizabeth, and later Alice Thorp, who died in childbirth — and was, according to one genealogist, probably a brother of a man named Tobias. He died 9 December 1683, at about the age of sixty-six.

Evidence

⭐ ADDED at PROBABLE, 10 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed — and the verdict pass recovered the primary record [TUTTLE-73/-VERDICT]: the 1649 Roxbury church admission (printed p.118, read at the image): “John Davis, Samuel Davis, Joseph Davis — Children of William Davis whose wife was admitted…” — naming Samuel as his son in a contemporary document; plus “Samuel Davis dismissed to North-Hampton” (p.91, ~1673). Savage’s William entry concurs (son “Samuel, 21 Feb. 1645”; wives Elizabeth then Alice Thorp; “prob. br. of Tobias”); Savage’s Samuel entry still hedges “perhaps” — with the infant-to-adult bridge resting on elimination, Probable is the honest grade. His second wife’s death: “Alice wife of William Davis who dyed in child birth undelivered” (p.193).

Outstanding: Samuel’s 1690 Hampshire probate (would close the bridge); the 1668-vs-1673 removal/dismissal lag; William’s own 6 Dec 1683 will (mentioned by Savage, unread).

Elizabeth Davis (admitted to the Roxbury church 1647×49 – d. 4 May 1658)

Ahnentafel #6157 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s father’s mother (12 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

Elizabeth was William Davis's first wife, admitted to the Roxbury church between 1647 and early 1649, shortly before a church ordinance recorded that her husband's children had been brought into the congregation through her admission. She is understood, by the timing of that record, to have been the mother of Samuel Davis, though the ordinance itself does not name her directly. She died, or was buried, on 4 May 1658.

Evidence

⭐ ADDED at PROBABLE, 10 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed [TUTTLE-73/77]. William Davis’s first wife and — by a tight cross-page inference — Samuel’s mother: her own church admission (printed p.86, bracketed 1647–early 1649) precedes the Oct 1649 ordinance (“Children of William Davis whose wife was admitted & so brought her children…”); Savage: “His w. Eliz. d. or was bur. 4 May 1658”; Alice Thorp only from 1658/1663. The ordinance never NAMES her — hence Probable.

Outstanding: the Roxbury BIRTHS register (mother named on the 1643/1645/1649 entries = the path to ok).

John Catlin (of Wethersfield; estate appraised 17 July 1644; his given name is unsettled)

Ahnentafel #6164 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s mother’s father’s father (12 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

The first husband of Isabel, and father of John Catlin who later settled at Deerfield, was a man of Wethersfield, Connecticut, whose estate was appraised at £69 on 17 July 1644. His given name is not settled: one genealogist records it as John, while another states plainly that the baptismal name of Isabel's first husband is unknown. The uncertainty concerns his identity, not his place in the family — he remains Isabel's husband and the elder generation behind John Catlin of Deerfield regardless of what he was called.

Evidence

ADDED at PROBABLE, 10 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed [TUTTLE-78/-VERDICT]. Isabel’s first husband and John-of-Deerfield’s father. Sheldon’s entry 1 names him “John” with the 1644 estate appraisal; Savage twice disclaims the given name (“The bapt. name of her first h. is unkn.”) — a genuine identification conflict = Probable by definition.

Outstanding: the Wethersfield 1644 estate record itself (would settle the name); Savage-vs-Sheldon adjudication.

Isabel Catlin (m.(2) James Northam; m.(3) Joseph Baldwin; d. 8 Dec 1676, Hadley)

Ahnentafel #6165 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s mother’s father’s mother (12 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

Isabel married three times. Her first husband, a Catlin of Wethersfield, died by 1644, leaving her with a son, John, who later settled at Deerfield; she then married James Northam, who died in either 1660 or 1662, the sources disagreeing; and she married a third time, to Joseph Baldwin of Milford and Hadley. She was probably the sister of Lawrence Ward, of New Haven, Branford, and Newark. She died 8 December 1676 at Hadley. In a striking turn, her son John Catlin later married Mary Baldwin, the daughter of Isabel's own third husband — so the two families were connected in two directions within a single generation.

Evidence

⭐ ADDED at PROBABLE, 10 Aug 2026 (ok refused on shared-source evidence) [TUTTLE-78/-VERDICT]. The thrice-married matriarch: Savage independently states her as John-of-Deerfield’s mother; Sheldon and the 1881 Baldwin Genealogy agree on her chain to the day AND word — likely one source absorbed. “Prob. sister of Lawrence Ward of New Haven, Branford… and Newark” (Sheldon) — the Newark thread is her BROTHER’s, untangling the old anachronism. Her son married her third husband’s daughter — the families interlock twice.

Outstanding: the Northam death-date conflict (1660/1662); Hampshire probate for the independent-date test (path back to ok).

Joseph Baldwin (Milford, Conn. 1639 → Hadley c.1663; d. 2 Nov 1684; will 20 Dec 1680, proved Northampton)

Ahnentafel #6166 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s mother’s mother’s father (12 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict · Immigrant

Joseph Baldwin was among the first settlers of Milford, Connecticut, in 1639, and later removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, about 1663, becoming a freeman there in 1666. He married three times — first Hannah, then Isabel, and finally Elizabeth (Hitchcock) Warriner. He died 2 November 1684; his will was drawn 20 December 1680 and proved at Northampton. As the immigrant generation of this family, his English background — a case has been made connecting him to a Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire family — was noted but deliberately not pursued; the family's American story begins with him.

Evidence

ADDED at PROBABLE, 10 Aug 2026 (ok refused — the two compilations are one source-lineage on these details) [TUTTLE-78/-VERDICT]. First settler of Milford; freeman at Hadley 1666; three wives (Hannah; Isabel; Elizabeth (Hitchcock) Warriner). THE IMMIGRANT — the English case (Richard of Cholesbury’s 1633 will naming the three brothers) noted, not chased.

Outstanding: his 1684 Hampshire probate file (the path back to ok for him AND Isabel).

Hannah Baldwin (joined the Milford church 23 June 1644, the day her first four children were baptized)

Ahnentafel #6167 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s mother’s mother’s mother (12 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

Hannah was the first wife of Joseph Baldwin of Milford, Connecticut. She joined the Milford church on 23 June 1644, the same day their first four children were baptized — among them Mary, whose own baptism is dated to that day. Little else of her own life survives; her name comes from a single source, and no record of her death has been found.

Evidence

ADDED at PROBABLE, 10 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-78/-VERDICT]. Joseph’s first wife and Mary Baldwin’s mother: “Joseph’s wife Hannah joined the Church June 23, 1644, and their first four children were then baptized” — Mary’s charted baptism is that very day. Single source for her name.

Outstanding: her death (before Joseph’s ~1660s remarriage); her own family.

Deacon William Peck (b. 1601 London – d. 4 (or 14) Oct 1694 at Lyme, at his son Joseph’s house)

Ahnentafel #12300 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s father’s father (13 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established · Immigrant

William Peck was born in London in 1601 and worked there as a merchant before emigrating with his wife, Elizabeth, and son Jeremiah, probably on the ship Hector, in the company of Governors Eaton and Hopkins and the Reverend John Davenport. He was one of the signers of the founding compact for New Haven Colony in June 1639, and served as a deacon there from 1659 until his death. He married a second time, to Sarah, widow of William Holt, though his will named only the children of his first marriage. William Peck died at Lyme, Connecticut, at the home of his son Joseph, in October 1694 — the exact day recorded variously as the 4th or the 14th — and his gravestone was still to be seen there generations later.

Evidence

⭐⭐ UPGRADED to DOCUMENTED, 10 Aug 2026, micro-adversary [TUTTLE-75]: the old ‘part’ rationale (Henry-vs-William) died on 8 Aug [TUTTLE-50/70]; three non-derivative authorities now carry both the man and the John-link. Savage p.394, recovered verbatim: “a merch. from London, b. 1601, with w. Eliz. and s. Jeremiah, came prob. in the Hector, as compan. with Govs. Eaton and Hopkins, Rev. John Davenport… one of the first compact for N.H. in June 1639… deac. from 1659 to his d.… In his will, of 9 Mar. 1689… the sec. w. and his four ch. are ment. but no more.” Second wife: Sarah, widow of William Holt (m. after 1683; the four children all Elizabeth’s). His gravestone “still to be seen” in Savage’s day.

Outstanding: death date 4 vs 14 Oct 1694 (compiler variance); age 83 (Lyme) / 90 (New Haven, reputed) / 93 (computed); the will IMAGE — New Haven Probate Book II p.176 (★2) — the record-side seal.

Elizabeth Peck (emigrated on the Hector, 1637 – d. 5 Dec 1683, visiting her son at Lyme)

Ahnentafel #12301 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s father’s mother (13 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Elizabeth emigrated from England to New England in 1637, probably aboard the ship Hector, together with her husband, William Peck, and their son Jeremiah. Her children, including a son John, were later named in her husband's will as the children of his first marriage. She died 5 December 1683 while visiting her son at Lyme, Connecticut. Her own maiden name was never recorded by any source consulted.

Evidence

⭐⭐ ADDED at DOCUMENTED, 10 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed [TUTTLE-74/-VERDICT]: two independent authorities agreeing TO THE DAY with non-overlapping detail — Darius Peck 1877 (“His wife, Elizabeth, died December 5, 1683… His children were all by his first wife” — the four incl. our John, named in the will) and Savage (“with w. Eliz. and s. Jeremiah, came prob. in the Hector… d. 5 Dec. 1683, on a visit to her s. at Lyme”). Savage’s will-paraphrase shows record access, not folklore. No prior-English-wife hint anywhere.

Outstanding: her maiden name (no source ventures one); the will image (★2) as the family’s record-side seal.

John Moss (New Haven 1639; Wallingford 1670; d. 1707 “aged 103, perhaps with slight exagg.”)

Ahnentafel #12302 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s mother’s father (13 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

John Moss was in New Haven by 1639 and later moved to Wallingford, Connecticut, by 1670. He and his wife had eleven children baptized between 1640 and 1655, among them Mary, baptized 11 April 1647, who married John Peck in 1664. One later compiler called him "the ancestor of all who bear the name in these parts." He was said to have died in 1707 at the remarkable age of 103, a figure that traces back to a sermon preached decades later and that should be treated with some skepticism rather than taken as fact.

Evidence

⭐⭐ ADDED at DOCUMENTED, 10 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed [TUTTLE-74/-VERDICT]: Savage’s full entry (eleven children incl. “Mary, 11 Apr. 1647… Mary m. 3 Nov. 1664, John Peck”) + Jacobus matching the baptism to the day + Davis (“the ancestor of all who bear the name in these parts”). The Sr./Jr. hazard is arithmetically dead: Mary (b. 1647) predates John Jr. (b. 1650). ⚠ The “aged 103” figure roots in Dana’s 1770 centennial sermon (Savage’s own citation) — carry with Savage’s raised eyebrow, not as fact.

Outstanding: his wife (node 12303); the deed method for her name.

John Moss's wife (name not recorded)

Ahnentafel #12303 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s mother’s mother (13 generations back) · Known unknown — the person existed; the name does not survive

The wife of John Moss of New Haven and Wallingford is known only through the eleven children she and her husband had baptized between 1640 and 1655, among them Mary, who married John Peck. Neither of the genealogical authorities consulted for this family named her, and no record has yet supplied her identity — her name simply does not survive.

Evidence

KNOWN UNKNOWN, 10 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-74/-VERDICT]. Eleven baptized children 1640–1655 prove her; Savage’s and Davis’s full entries name no wife — an informative silence, read whole. Recovery path: a New Haven/Wallingford conveyance with the “for love and affection to my wife ———” formula.

Additional record pages

Continuation pages of multi-page evidence scans above — every published scan, reachable in full. Captions are derived from the archival filenames.