"Distinguished Families in America Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke", William B. Aitken, 1912


... the famous Captain John Gallop, who came to America in 1623, and
Caistobel his wife; grandson of Thomas Gallop, owner of the manors of
North Bowood and Strode in Dorchester, England, and his wife, who was the
daughter of Thomas Crabb, of Nosterne.  The name was spelled Gallup, Galop,
Galup, and Gallop.  The connection of the American Gallops with the Gallops
of Strode is shown in documents in the possession of the Massachusetts
Historical Society. The family are entitled to arms, as shown in Burke's
Landed Gentry: Gules on a bend or a Hon passant guardant sable. Crest: a Hon
bendy or and sable holding in his dexter paw a broken arrow gules. Motto:
"Be Bolde, Be Wyse." Captain John Gallop was in a fight with the Pequot
Indians of Block Island in 1636 called the first naval engagement in New
England waters. His son Captain John Gallop, 1616-1675, of the first company
of Connecticut forces under Major Robertson, married, in 1643, Hannah Lake,
daughter of John Lake, a descendant of the Lakes of Normantown, Yorkshire,
England, Earls of Arundel and Counts of Louraine, and resided on the Mystic
River, Connecticut. He was killed in the Great Swamp Fight in 1675, against
the Narragansetts led by the Indian chief King Philip.