Jedediah Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1650
Baptism:
Death: 21 Jan 1712 - New Jersey 1
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Ralph Allen (1615-1698)
Mother: Esther Swift (1622-1691) 2
Notes
General:
Named in the will of grandmother Joan Swift. Per Savage, Vol 1, pg 32, a Jedediah Allen of Sandwich married Experience; dau of James Swift and had children. No James Swift mentioned in Vol 4 of Savage. The first James Swift in this effort wasn't born until 1720.
Per Gen of R.I. Fam (2), Vol 1, pg 1 Jedediah married ELIZABETH _____. He moved to N.J. where he was a member of the first colonial assembly in 1703. In 1704 he was charged with libel on Lord Cornbury. Jedediah died 21 Jan 1712. Jedediah and Elizabeth had:
i EPHRAIM ALLEN, born 1670
ii Eliashib Allen, born 17 Oct 1672
iii Nathan Allen, born 1673
iv Judah Allen, born1 7 Oct 1675
v Esther Allen, born 26 Mar 1677
vi HENRY ALLEN, born 1678
vii BENJAMIN ALLEN, born 1679 1
Jemima Allen
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1730 - (Fairhaven, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Silvanus Allen (1706-1785)
Mother: Jemima Starbuck (Est 1700- )
Jessie M Allen
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1863 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1931
Burial: in Gifford cemetery, Provincetown
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Daniel Allen (1827-1909) 4
Mother: Flora McAulay (1831-1897) 4
Spouses and Children
1. *Dwight K Reynolds (1853 - )
Marriage: 23 Jun 1889 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Status:
Jethro Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1732 - (Fairhaven, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Silvanus Allen (1706-1785)
Mother: Jemima Starbuck (Est 1700- )
Jethro Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1704
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Dinah Norton (Cir 1704 - ) 6
Marriage: 25 Mar 1736 6
Status:
Joan Allen
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1602 - Weymouth, Dorset, England
Baptism:
Death: 1638 - Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Death, , (Weymouth, Plymouth colony) in (Weymouth, Plymouth colony)
Parents
Father: George Allen (Abt 1568-1648)
Mother: Margaret (Est 1570-Bef 1624)
Spouses and Children
1. *Clement Briggs (Abt 1600 - 23 Dec 1648)
Marriage: 1630 - Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay
Status:
Children:
1. Thomas Briggs (1633-1696)
2. Jonathan Briggs (1635-Bef 1690) 7
3. Joan Briggs (1637-1685) 8
Notes
Marriage Notes (Clement Briggs)
The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN
CLEMENT BRIGGS
ORIGIN: Southwark, Surrey
MIGRATION: 1621 in Fortune
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth REMOVES: Weymouth by 1630
OCCUPATION:
Fellmonger.
EDUCATION: Made his mark to his deed of 8 October 1637 and deposition of 29 August 1638. Inventory included books valued at 6s.
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth land division, "Clemente Brigges" was granted one acre "beyond the first brook to the wood westward" as a passenger on the Fortune [PCR 12:5]. In the 1627 Plymouth cattle division, "Clemont Briggs" was included in the company of
John Howland [PCR 12:10]. On 8 October 1637 "Clement Briggs of Wessaguscus" sold to "John Browne of Plymouth ... four acres of land of the upper end of that lot of land that appertaineth unto me the said Clement Briggs and that the said John Browne doth also agree that the said Clement Briggs shall have for him & his heirs forever the like quantity of four acres of land out of the land of the said John Browne lying at the lower end and adjoining to the residue of the land of the aforesaid Clement Briggs at Joanes River" [PCR
12:22]. On 29 August 1639 Clement Briggs sold to "Mr. Rob[er]te Heeks one acre of land in the upper fall near the Second Brook" [PCR 12:34]. In a compilation of Weymouth landholding, probably prepared about 1643, Clement Briggs held two parcels of land: "ten acres in the easter neck first granted to him" and "two acres upon the neck at the ferry" [Weymouth Hist 1:190]. In his undated will, probated 24 October 1650, "Clemant Brigs of Waymouth" bequeathed to "my son Thomas my home lot at Plimouth 20 acres ... and my biggest iron pot"; to "my son Jonathan 3 acres of my land joining to John Rees land that is not broke up and to enter it when he is of the age of 18 years and when he is of the age of 21 years to have so much as will make the portion 3 acres one fourth part of all my lands in Waymouth and after the decease of my wife it is my will he shall have one fourth part more"; to "my son Clemat my housing and the other half of my land in Waymouth and to enter it when he is of the age of 21 years"; to "my sons Thom[as], David, John, Rememb[er] my other land at Plimouth or in Plimouth jointly and equally amongst them; "one year after Clem[en]t do enter to the foresaid land he shall give his brother Rememb[er] 20s. and John 10s. and ... Jonathan shall give 10s. to his brother David and to brother
Thom[as] 10s. in one year after he do enter to half my land"; wife to be executor and John Rogers and Robert Tucker overseers [SPR Case #101]. (This will was not recorded until the nineteenth century, at which time the copyist misread Remember as Edmund [SPR NS 1:456].)
The inventory of the estate of Clement Briggs, taken on 23 February 1648[/9?] and presented to court on 28 July 1659, totalled ?65 7s., of which ?36 was real estate: "one dwelling house and old barn," ?4; "17 acres of planting land adjoining to the said house," ?18; "one share of upland upon the eastward neck," ?5; "3 acres near James Smith's house," ?2; "one acre of salt marsh upon the westward neck near the ferry," ?4; "about an acre of marsh more on the eastward neck," ?2; and "land in Plimouth and Plimoth Pattent," ?1 [SPR 3:151-52, Case #101]. On 7 June 1659 Plymouth court granted to "Thomas Briggs, son of Clement Briggs, deceased," one hundred fifty acres of land and twenty acres of meadow "in the way to Deadum from Taunton" [PCR 3:164]. On 8 June 1664 "Phineas Pratte and the Elder Bates, in the behalf of the children of Clement Briggs," not having "had their proportions of land with others of this jurisdiction formerly called purchasers or old comers," asking for consideration, Plymouth court granted "unto the said Phineas Pratt and unto two of the said Clement Briggs his sons, viz:, David Briggs and Remember Briggs, three hundred and fifty acres" of land in Plymouth Colony near the Massachusetts Bay line "near unto Waymouth," assigning two-thirds of the grant to Pratt and the other third to the sons of Clement Briggs [PCR 4:68]. On 19 March 1671 twelve acres of marsh land were laid out to "the children of Clement Briggs," by order of court 29 October 1668, adjoining "their Great Lot" [PCLR 3:214; PCR 5:5]. In her will of 13 November 1683, probated 11 August 1691, "Elizabeth Briggs of Weymouth" bequeathed to "my son David" (?10, brass kettle, brass pot, and great Bible), to "my grandchild Clement
Briggs" (?15, if he renounces further claims on estate), to "my son Remember Briggs" (remainder of estate, he to be executor); in a codicil of 11 November 1685 Elizabeth Briggs noted that her son David had died since the making of her will, and reassigned David's bequest of ?10 to her grandson Clement Briggs, and the rest of David's legacy to Remember Briggs [SPR Case #1873]. BIRTH: By about 1600 (the deposition of 1638 implies that in 1616 Briggs had already been a servant of Mr. Samuel Latham for a few years).
DEATH:
Weymouth by 23 February 1648[/9?] (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) By 1 March 1630/1 Joan Allen (1 March 1630/1: "Mr. Tho: Stoughton, constable of Dorchester, is fined ?5 for taking upon him to marry Clement Briggs & Joane Allen ..." [MBCR 1:83]); she died by 1640. (On 6 March 1637/8 at a Quarter Court at Cambridge Clement Briggs gave a bond of ?10 for the appearance of his wife at the next court; at the same court Arthur Warren was presented "for keeping company with Clement Briggs's wife, [which] was found to be true" [MBCR 1:219]. At a Quarter Court on 5 June 1638 Clement Brigg's wife was "enjoined not to come into the company of Arthur Warren" [MBCR 1:233].)
(2) By 1640 Elizabeth _____; she died between 11 November 1685 (date of codicil) and 11 August 1691 (probate of will), probably at Weymouth.
Note:
CHILDREN (all born Weymouth): With first wife
i THOMAS, b. 14 June 1633 [NEHGR 8:348]; m. Ann _____ [BrPR 2:65].
ii JONATHAN, b. 14 June 1635 [NEHGR 8:348]; m. by about 1664 Experience _____ [TAG 33:83-86].
ASSOCIATIONS: On 29 August 1638 "Clement Briggs of Weymouth fellmonger" deposed that "about two and twenty years since this deponent then dwelling with one Mr. Samuel Lathame in Barmundsey Street in Southwarke, a fellmonger, and one Thomas Harlow then also dwelling with Mr. Rob[er]te Heeks in the same street, a fellmonger, the said Harlow and this deponent had often conference together how many pelts each of their masters pulled a week." Briggs goes on to tell in detail how many pelts had been handled a week "for the space of three or four years," possibly implying that he had in 1616 been servant to Samuel Latham since about 1612. The deposition was apparently taken at the request of ROBERT HICKS, who may have been involved in a lawsuit in England [PCR 12:34-35].
COMMENTS: In a letter of 6 February 1631/2 from the governor and assistants of Plymouth to the governor and assistants of Massachusetts, Clement Briggs is included in a list of men who had "gone from hence, to dwell and inhabit with you" [WP 3:65]. Savage thought that Briggs first went to Dorchester and then Weymouth, based probably on the fact that Thomas Stoughton, who married Clement Briggs and Joan Allen, was a resident of Dorchester. However, at this time Weymouth (still Wessaguscus) was for administrative purposes considered a part of Dorchester, and it is more likely that Briggs went directly from Plymouth to Weymouth.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1966 Edna Anne Hannibal, with the assistance of Claude W. Barlow, published a solid genealogy of the descendants of Clement Briggs, as part of a series on Briggs families of New England [Clement Briggs of Plymouth Colony and His Descendants, 1621-1965 (n.p., 1966)]. This volume presents evidence supporting the interesting hypothesis that the widow of Clement Briggs was the "widow Briggs" residing in the early 1650s at Southampton [p. 4]
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Note:
Among the names of the Gorges settlers we find those of Maverick, Thompson, Graves, Jeffreys, Bursley, Norton, Glover, Woolsey, Richard Cornish and Clement Briggs. Maverick, who had gone back to England, came out again with his wife Anilas in 1624, and built a house at Winnisimmet, now Chelsea, which he fortified with a Pillizado and flankers and guns, which was a terror to the Indians and later become a trading station. The others remained in Wessagusset. 9
John Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 23 Nov 1816 - Harwich, Massachusetts 10
Baptism:
Death: 19 Nov 1861 - Lost At Sea 11
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Death 12, , Lost At Sea Lost At Sea
Parents
Father: Thomas Allen (1788-1872)
Mother: Lucy Gould (1787-1847)
John Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1660 - Sandwich, Plymouth Colony
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Holloway (24 Apr 1664 - )
Marriage:
Status:
John Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Sep 1757 - Harwich, Massachusetts 13
Baptism:
Death: 6 Jul 1804
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Allen (1729-1809)
Mother: Hannah Paine (1732-1808)
Spouses and Children
1. *Bethiah Hamilton (2 Jul 1761 - )
Marriage: 1 Nov 1783
Status:
Children:
1. Abigail Allen (1786-1840)
2. Thomas Allen (1788-1872)
3. Mary Allen (1794-1885)
4. Freeman D Allen (1800- )
John Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1816 - Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Maria Parker (18 Apr 1818 - 8 Jun 1845) 14
Marriage: 31 Oct 1841 - Rockport, Massachusetts
Status:
John Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 24 Nov 1729 - (Yarmouth, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death: 29 Apr 1809 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Death, , Harwich, Massachusetts in Harwich, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: William Allen (Est 1706- )
Mother: Susanna Rider (1709- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Hannah Paine (1732 - 25 Apr 1808)
Marriage: 25 Jun 1750 - Harwich, Massachusetts 15
Status:
Children:
1. William Allen (1751- )
2. Seth Allen (1755-1838)
3. Ebenezer Allen (1757- )
4. John Allen (1757-1804)
5. Elizabeth Allen (1759- )
6. Samuel Allen (1761- )
7. Paine Allen (1764-1855)
8. Nathaniel Allen (1768- )
9. Elisha Allen (1771- )
John Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1682 - Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard
Baptism:
Death: 17 Oct 1767 - Chilmark, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Allen (1636-1714)
Mother: Elizabeth Partridge (1644-1722)
John Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 23 Aug 1699 - Salem, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: Bef 1729
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Rebecca Doane (4 Sep 1698 - 16 Feb 1769)
Marriage: 3 Oct 1723 - Eastham, Massachusetts 17
Status:
Children:
1. Eunice Allen (1725- )
Jonas H Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1825 - (Windham, Vermont)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Harriet Newell Delano (Oct 1829 - 26 Jul 1853) 18
Marriage: Jan 1851 - Truro, Massachusetts 19
Status:
Notes
General:
1852 of Windham, Vermont
Jonathan Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1740
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Deborah Gardner (23 Jan 1744 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Joseph Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 13 Jul 1773 - Nantucket, Massachusetts 20
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Benjamin Allen (1740-1798)
Mother: Abigail Trott (1746-1810)
Notes
General:
h. Abigail (d. Solomon Coffin)
Joseph Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 10 Dec 1695 - Nantucket, Massachusetts 20
Baptism:
Death: 4 Jul 1706 - Nantucket, Massachusetts 21
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Double Date, 10: 10m: 1695, Nantucket, Massachusetts in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Edward Allen (Est 1670-1741)
Mother: Anne Coleman (1676-1739)
Joseph Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1 Jun 1737 - Nantucket, Massachusetts 20
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Double Date, 1: 4m: 1737, Nantucket, Massachusetts in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Nathaniel Allen (1700-1776)
Mother: Mercy Skiff (1701-1781)
Joseph Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Feb 1720 - vicinity of Falmouth, Maine 22
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Rev Benjamin Allen (1689-1754)
Mother: Elizabeth Crocker (1688- )
Joseph Allen
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1682 - Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard
Baptism:
Death: 10 Mar 1727 - Tisbury, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Allen (1636-1714)
Mother: Elizabeth Partridge (1644-1722)
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