When Martha Alley was born on 31 July 1649, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Hugh Alley Sr, was 41 and her mother, Mary Graves, was 31. She married James Mills Sr on 1 April 1671, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 11 January 1748, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 98.
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In 1692, the Salem Witch Trials began when Betty Parris fell sick with an unknown illness. Her cousin Abigail William claimed that she was being made sick because of witchcraft. As other strange events began to happen more of the young ladies in the town started accussing more people. These people mainly consisted of people the young ladies did not like. By the time the hysteria ended over 200 people were accussed of being witches. Nineteen men and women were found guilty and hung.
The Crowninshield-Bentley house was built in 1727 by ship captain John Caspar Crowninshield. His family occupied the house for generations until it was taken over by Revend Bentley.
English: from the Middle English personal name Ally, Alli, as forms such as Johannes filius Alli (Norfolk, 1205) make clear. It may be a pet form of Alexander , Alan , Alice , or Alison , or a survival of Old Danish Alli, Old Swedish Alle, found as Alli in the Domesday Book.
In some cases also an altered form of French Hallé (see Halle 2) or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
Variant of Allee 2, a surname of French origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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