Sir John Alleyne, 1st Baronet
Barbadian politician
Sir John Gay Alleyne, 1st Baronet (28 April 1724 – 1801) was a British baronet, Barbados landowner, and Barbadian politician.
Family
Sir John Gay Alleyne was born at Saint James, Barbados, the second son of John Alleyne and his wife Mary Terrill, who was the daughter of William Terrill. The Alleyne family (like the Clement family, Codrington family, Drax family, and Terrill family) were amongst the 17th century colonisers of Barbados. The first Alleyne to emigrate to Barbados was Reynold Alleyne, who was the son of The Rev. Richard Alleyne D. D., Rector of St. Mary's, Stowting, Kent, and who emigrated to Barbados between 1628 and 1630.
On 19 October 1746 at St James Church, Barbados, John Gay Alleyne married Cristen Dottin, who was the fourth daughter of Anne Jordan Dottin and Joseph Dottin. His marriage brought him ownership of the estate of the Jacobean mansion St Nicholas Abbey in Saint Peter, Barbados, which became one of the most successful sugar-plantations in Barbados before (after the death of their only son, at Eton College when aged 12 years) its ownership reverted to his wife's relations on her death during 1782.
Alleyne married, secondly, on 29 June 1786, first cousin Jane Abel Alleyne, who was the daughter of Major Abel Gay Alleyne (1699–1747), of Mount Steadfast and later of Braintree, Massachusetts, by his wife Mary (née Woodbridge), who lived out her days at what is now known as the Dorothy Q. Homestead in Massachusetts, which is now a museum that is managed by the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. She was forty years his junior.
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