The following deed from the Voluntown Records
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These Presents witnesseth to an agreement madeand concluded upon by and between John Gallup, ofStonington, and Elizabeth Stevens, relict to Mr HenryStevens of said Stonington, deceased, and MargaretCulver relict to Mr Joseph Culver, of Groton, deceased,and John Cole and Mary, his wife, of Voluntown: whichJohn, Elizabeth, Mary, and Margaret, are four of yechildren of Mr John Gallup and Hannah, his wife, ofStonington, deceased, and Benadam Gallup of saidGroton, in behalf of the heirs of Mr Benadam Gallup ofStonington, deceased, and John and William of Volun-town, for and in ye right of Mr William Gallup ofsaid Stonington, deceased, and John Gifford of Nor-wich, for and in behalf of the rest of the heirs of MrsHannah Gifford of said Norwich, deceased; and PeterCrary of Groton, for and in behalf ye rest ye heirs ofChristobel Crary of said Groton, deceased, which de-ceased, Benadam, William, Hannah and Christobel arefor four more of ye children of ye said John and Han-nah Gallup, deceased: the said Elizabeth Stevens, Mar-garet Culver, John and Mary Cole, John Gifford andPeter Crary, do agree that ye third and middle hundredacres of land in Voluntown laid out by John Prentiss,surveyor, to ye heirs of said deceased, John and HannahGallup, shall be the hundred acres to satisfie the grant toJohn Gallup, deceased, Oct. 12th 1671 and we, the saidJohn Gallup of Stonington, and Benadam Gallup ofGroton, and John Gallup and William Gallup of Volun-town do agree to accept of said third hundred for satis-faction for said grant, and also we, the said John Gal-lup of Stonington and Benadam Gallup of Groton, andElizabeth Stevens and Margaret Culver and John andMary Cole and John and William Gallup of said Volun-town, and John Gifford and Peter Crary, do agree thatye two hundred acres of land laid out by said surveyor
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