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orth Bowood and Strode, whose descendants still ownand occupy the Manor of Strode. John Gallup, the immigrant, married Christobel,whose surname is not given. He settled in Dorchester,then Boston, and became a landholder, owning land inthe town and an island of sixteen acres in Boston Bay,which still bears his name. He also owned Mixes Mate,or Monument Island, as it is sometimes called, where hepastured sheep. He was a skillful mariner, well ac-quainted with the harbor around Boston. He piloted theShip Griffin in Sept. 1633, through a new-found passage,among her two hundred passengers being Rey. JohnCotton, Rev. Thomas Hooker, Rev. Mr. Stone, and otherfathers of New England. The most notable adventure in the sturdy Captain’slife was his encounter with a boat load of Indians, whomhe captured and destroyed off Block Island with the aidof his two sons and a hired man. The Indians had mur-dered John Oldham, a man of ability, and they werehaving a hilarious time in his boat when they were over-taken by Capt. Gallup. This has been called the firstnaval battle on the Atlantic coast, and it gave the Cap-tain a Colonial and later a national reputation. It wasone of the first skirmishes of the great Pequod War. John Gallup died in Boston in 1649. An inventory ofhis estate was made Dec. 26, 1649. His widow diedJuly 27, 1655.
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