Sarah Allyn [Robert, Edward, Edmond, John³, John², Richard¹] was the daughter of Robert and Sarah Allyn. She married George Geer 17 Feb 1657/58 in New London, New London County, Connecticut.

They married during a relative time of peace in the new world. Sarah’s family had settled at Pequot by 1651. Her father had a grant of a large farm on the east side of the river where the town of Ledyard is now laid out.

New London is located on the Thames River and Long Island Sound and is recognized as a destination point for tall ships. It took more than a decade of effort by the settlers to get the Legislature to agree to naming the plantation New London. The early settlement went by various Indian names, such as Pequot or Nameaug. In 1648, the inhabitants selected London as their name, but the General Court baulked. The Court suggested the more modest name of Fair Harbor. The settlers spurned this suggestion. In 1658, the Legislature relented and finally passed an act legalizing the name of New London.

In February 1658 their first of 11 children was born. Named for her mother little Sarah was one of five girls. In 1665 the family bought land and built a dwelling near a good spring on a sheltered hillside beside the Mohican Trail. They were there when the General Court of Connecticut won a charter from King Charles II on Oct. 9, 1662. Among other things, the document legitimized settlements in Connecticut, set the boundaries of the colony, and perpetuated the rights laid out in the Fundamental Orders, allowing the colonists a high degree of self-government.

In January 1674/5 the families 8^th child was born. Robert was named for Sarah’s father and was born while the massacre of the Narragansett Indians unfolded.

Sarah’s last child, Jeremiah was born in September 1683. Nothing more is known about her life or when she died. Her husband, George Geer died in 1726 in Preston, New London County, Connecticut.