The Name of aot Bt, te Dortvabion & antiquity The name Allon, with common variante ouch ae Allyn, Allin, Sling, fer im very snoiont, and ix supposed by come to be of Saxon origins aot $e hey? Boon originally written alwyno, signifying "beloved of S110" ta nitey iY Comen name in Saland, froquontly appearing in history) nnd fisost invariably spelled Allon. It sean probable that the nowy ont Te the, dtkelings, eantng a pereon of royal blood~contractul aliines, dileno—a dark brunette race of the angles, who eamo with the Sarone foim reraatyte Britain in the sixth esutury, (of. Hoagland'n 162 aLLTaD Fake qhiSs, Royal Lineazos, pp. 5~A, 15, 16.) Thoy drove wul. the Seote ond Teck Pommsaton of tho country, giving it the name of ingleclonds of hex Mate ind by thoi intormxture ve have the inglo-Saxon faoo. Sorkets RNSYOUOPEOI s OF HERALIRY gives forty diffaret create for alton fees Cor allya, and ono for Allin. Other otynologixte trace tho nano tu «1 corruption of the Latin jee peter Mich signifies sunbright, Tho Slavonic land means wol foiog, cane pait® Gaulle aluinn cignifies hundsono, elegant, lovely. The Erion Roms fates bowutitud. Tao Arglish lan and Glen, all runing, att Senmuerine. Tho name 0 @ personal one, and firet bornu by the bard of Wroe ahe ange ame Ante prouinenes at tho tine of thn Gonqucot (106), ‘pon the chief goncrel of ths Norman army of Willius the Contustos yew se ook? Of Brittany. Tho family aoat was in the countios of iuelom ay EagOks | Frank Q. Holmse tn nio DINEOTORY OF TH: aNUESTAGL HEADS Of a AreuiND PAMILT3, 1620-1700 (pp. iii-tv), 1tete 45 onigrante, baste Tonstgtinet families in the Now Suglani colonies before 1760, “daane ae Ten, patriarch of the tantly hore under consideration, cots very well Trove got @ descendant of ono of than mumorouo founiora of famiitoee rere nsets any sattLare who cans from How ‘gland into New Joreny der= Are the colonial periods Tho assertion that he waa a nophew of eohee allen, the Rwolutionary hero, seems to havo no bls in ects The biatory of thia fantly 19 in ovory raspmct worthy ef progorvo= Spone ,ald the way dom, in avary goncration, there were won and som of character and influence in tho community in whieh they lival, 3 Ghettul writer has vory truly anid "The goncalogy of » faatly groutd consist not sorely or nanos in the lino of descent. Te shouts Prevent biozruphical skotchos of thoce whe ought to be wid in gverlaot= ang ponembrunco, thus at onco gratifying a natural fonling of the heart Gn4 Ponoring those who have showed thonoolveo worthy uf honor. There te Gaiilustration of thio in thy gonealorioal tablaa vf the First Beek oF Ghroniclass ‘and Jaboz wan wore honorable than hie brothrone! “And ben eh Cony enueTe, Ronerable ho wae dictinyul ict by a biographical skcteh, while only tho usro names of the others aru given.” it the sors tim te the msot ecmaubere! that tho most proninont charactors are not, always Gre mock worthy, und many im obocure pouitione have Joaurvel tro neciind © Rratoful recognition which they have nevor roceived.”