Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, 2nd Baronet (29 August 1592 – March 1662) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1662.
[1] At the outbreak of the English Civil War King Charles I appointed Ayloffe High Sheriff of Essex.
Consequently, he was imprisoned by Parliament, his estates being sequestrated and himself obliged to sell that of Brittains.
[1][2] They had one daughter: Catharine, who married Thomas Hardwick, of Leeds, in Yorkshire and three sons:[2] It has been claimed that a fourth son, John Aylett, emigrated to America based on a series of letters discovered by W.W. Fontaine among Aylett family papers in Virginia, the originals of which have disappeared.
Noted genealogist Lothrop Withington commented that although these letters could be authentic, there are some strong reasons to suspect that they could have been forgeries that were planted to fool Fontaine, who was an avid family historian.