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The Hingham Meeting House, behind which Joan & Thomas were buried together, was still standing in 1900. Thomas was a house carpenter, a millwright, an architect and builder of the original "town hall" in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Founder of Voluntown:
On Oct. 8, 1696, the General Court at Hartford was petitioned on behalf of English Volunteers "in ye former warr" for a plantation six miles square to be taken out of "the conquered land". On Oct 14, 1696, John Gallup, Capt. Sam Mason and Leut. James Avery were appointed by the Court to view the tract and on Oct. 10, 1700, the Court confirmed the tract as Voluntown. He was chosen a Selectman at first town meeting in 1721 and he became Captain of the first military company in 1726.
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Founder of Voluntown:
On Oct. 8, 1696, the General Court at Hartford was petitioned on behalf of English Volunteers "in ye former warr" for a plantation six miles square to be taken out of "the conquered land". On Oct 14, 1696, John Gallup, Capt. Sam Mason and Leut. James Avery were appointed by the Court to view the tract and on Oct. 10, 1700, the Court confirmed the tract as Voluntown. He was chosen a Selectman at first town meeting in 1721 and he became Captain of the first military company in 1726.
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John was a Private in Capt. Joseph's Company and then Corporal, Lexington Alarm, Revolutionary War. John died at age 82; he and Bridget are buried at the Gallup Cemetery, Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut.
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Thomas Gallup was a private in Capt. Joshua Hendee's company, Col. Jonathan Chase's regiment, and subsequently served as sergeant in the American Revolution. He served also as a lieutenant under Capt. Israel Putnam to hold Ft. Edward during the winter of 1756/57.
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Judith was the neice of Edward Clapp of Dorchester, MA.