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From Memoranda of A. M. Crary, Herington, Kansas

“In the year 1663, two brothers, Peter and John Crary, left their home near Glasgow, Scotland, and after a long voyage of many weeks across the Atlantic Ocean arrived in Boston, Mass. Boston was then only about thirty years old. John, the younger brother, took up his abode in Boston. Peter journeyed southward and settled in the town of New London,Conn. He married in 1677, Christobel Gallup, daughter of Capt. John Gallup and Hannah Lake. (See Gallup Record.) The greater number of the Crarys in this country are descendants of Peter Crary and Christobel Gallup. The other line of descent, from Capt. John Crary, was not so large..”