Edward Stallion

- 1703

• Name	Edward Stallion  [1, 2]
  Birth	of New London, New London, Connecticut   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 May 1703  [4, 5]
  Person ID	I1705	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	12 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family	Margaret   d. Aft 1680
  Children	+ 1. Deborah Stallion,   b. 1651, New London, New London, Connecticut d. 27 Mar 1729, Groton, New London, Connecticut (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F4018	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 May 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Also spelled Stollyon, Sterling. From Swamp Yankee from Mystic by Roy N. Bohlander (1980): Edward Stallyon came with his wife Margaret to New London with the others in 1651. Unlike many of them he stayed in town for over thirty years. He must have done well with his trading sloop from the beginning, for in 1660 he had one of the few stone houses in town. Very much the businessman, in 1673 he was fined 30 shillings for sailing his vessel from New London to Norwich on the Sabbath. In 1680 he had a new 30 ton sloop Edward and Margaret built by Hugh Mould. About 1684 he built a house on the Pleasant Valley Road in Groton. It is still standing, and believed to be the oldest house in town. His daughter Deborah married James Avery, Jr. Edward died as he had lived--on the water. In May of 1703 he drowned while crossing the river to New London in his dugout canoe. Although he married three times, his daughter was his only heir.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4165] Some Colonial Families: Avery, Brewster, Mills, Morgan, Smith, Starr, Stewart, Tracy by Eloise M. Roberts. Avard, Oklahoma, 1926. [S3332] The Avery Family: The Ancestors and Descendants of Christopher Avery by Maureen A. Taylor, with contributions by Julie Helen Otto. Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2004. [S474] History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield by Donald Lines Jacobus. Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930-32. [S119] Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen by Gerald R. Fuller. Esther Fuller Dial, ed. The Andrew Lee Allen Family Organization, 1952. [S7387] History of New London, Connecticut by Frances Manwaring Caulkins. New London, Connecticut: H. D. Utley, 1895.