Asahel, son of Joseph and Rebecca Allen, was born at Windham, CT on November 16, 1742. He married Desire Eames, daughter of Anthony and Anna (Barker) Eames, on January 24, 1765.
Connecticut Vital Records to 1870, (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928., (birth); (marriage)
Find-A-Grave, Asahel Allen, Old Scotland Cemetery (North), Scotland, Windham County, Connecticut, USA.
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Mr. Allen was the third son and fourth child of Enoch and Betsey (Witter) Allen, who were married in 1794. They had five children: Asa Witter, born 1795; John, 1797; Eliza, (died young); Martin, 1807; and David, 1809. Enoch Allen was born in Windham, Connecticut, May 23, 1768. His father, Asahel Allen, was born in the same place in the year 1742. The Allen family were among the earliest of the New England colonists. Martin Allen is a direct descendent of Samuel and Ann Allen, of Bridgewater, Somersetshire, England, who located at Braintree, Massachusetts, ten miles south of Boston, in the early part of the seventeenth century.
edited by Cathryn (Hallett) Hondros