Samuel Allen I (abt. 1628 - 1702)

Born about Feb 1628 in Keynsham, Somerset, England

Husband of Mary (Unknown) Allen — married 1661 in Chew Magna, Somerset, , England

Descendants

Died 20 Nov 1702 at about age 74 in Middletown, Bucks, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Samuel was a Friend (Quaker)

Samuel Allen was from Chew Magna, Somerset, England. He arrived at Chester, Pennsylvania on 11 December 1681, on the Ship Bristol Factor. He brought a certificate from the Monthly Meeting of Friends at Butcomb in Somerset, dated 24 Feb 1681/2. The certificate was received by the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. The family settled on the west band of Neshaminy Creek in Bucks County, on 2000 acres purchased from William Penn.

The first Samuel Allen conveyed, in his lifetime, a considerable portion of his real estate to his children, his son Samuel getting the homestead and 260 acres, and 200 acres additional near John Swift's mill on the Neshaminy. In 1696, 300 acres on the east side of the Neshaminy were conveyed to his son in law, John Baldwin. The following year he procured an act of Assembly establishing a ferry over Neshaminy at what is now Schenck's station, which was called Baldwin's ferry. The second Samuel Allen died in 1735, leaving his land to his sons, Samuel and William, and legacies to his other children. The 160 acres of Samuel lay on the north side of the "King's highway" and remained in the family through six generations, and until 1871.

Samuel Allen, son of Richard, was baptized February 23, 1627/8 at Keynsham St. John's.^[1]

Arrival in Pennsylvania

Samuel Allen I was a William Penn fleet passenger.

Samuel Allen, along with his wife Mary and 5 children (Martha, Anne, Sarah, Samuel and Priscilla) arrived from Chew Magna in ^[2] England and settled on Neshaminy Creek. They became a prominent Quaker family in early Bucks County.

There is some disagreement about which ship the family arrived on.

Ships & Passengers prior to 1684 states that Samuel Allen shipped goods aboard the Society of Bristol,^[3] and, citing, W.W.H. Davis "The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania" that Samuel Allen, shoemaker of Chew Magna, Somersetshire, and F.P. of 2000 acres, arrived aboard Bristol Factor in December 1681 with his wife and children.^[4]

A descendant of this Samuel Allen, also named Samuel Allen (the 5th in the line) places them aboard Bristol Factor.^[2]

The Welcome Society had previously recognized them as passengers aboard Bristol Factor on , however the family are now recognized as passengers aboard Society which arrived in August of 1682. ^[5]

The original GEDCOM import from a previous merge had this information: from newspaper entitled "Philadelphia of Our Ancestors, conducted by Frank Willing Leach: Old Philadelphia Families--Waln-- by George A. Chandler, dated Feb 29, 1907^[6]

The survey for Samuel Allen's 500 acres in Bucks County was returned into the surveyor general's office on "4 7m" (September 7), 1682^[7]

Children of Samuel & Mary Allen

• Martha Allen, married Daniel Pegg 2nd month 22 (April 22), 1686 ^[2]

• Anne Allen, married Stephen Lane 12th month 4 (February 4), 1688^[2]

• Sarah Allen, married 10th month 19 (December 19) 1680^[2]

• Priscilla Allen, married Thomas Smith in 1682. This was the first marriage celebrated in Philadelphia.^[2]

All three daughters were married at a meetings in the father's home at Neshaminy.^[2]

• Samuel Allen married Jane Waln at the meeting house at Neshaminy 3rd month 27 (May 27), 1691.^[2]

Note: Another daughter "Hester" is commonly found in online family trees, although I've not found any documented source that includes her with the other children. If you have reliable source for Hester, please update her profile.
(Powell-5629 19:57, 12 September 2015 (EDT))

According to the Genealogy of the Rodman Family 1620 to 1886 by Charles Henry Jones on page 45, Joseph ref 168 "married Mary Allen, dau of Nicholas Allen, Bensalem, Bucks County". "Nicholas the "great-grandson of Samuel Allen and Mary, his wife, who with their five children, came from Cheemagne, near Bristol England, on the ship "Bristol Factor," Nicholas was actually the grandson,

Sources

1. ↑ Keynsham St. John's Baptisms 1628-1697. Transcribed by Lee Paltridge. and hosted by Keynsham & Saltford Local History Society
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Allen A Record of the Allen family from the first settlement in Pennsylvania.
3. ↑ Sheppard, Walter Lee Jr., Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684 in a reprint of Marion Balderston's work "William Penn's Twenty-Three Ships" , page 42
4. ↑ Sheppard, Walter Lee Jr., Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684, page 32
5. ↑ The Welcome Society
6. ↑ (JDS_09_17_10.ged, 9 February 2011):
7. ↑ Sheppard, Walter Lee Jr., Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684, page 42; citing Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, III, 54

See also:

• Allen, Samuel (b.1782). A Record of the Allen family from the first settlement in Pennsylvania, by Samuel Allen, the son of the eldest son of the same name for five generations. Philadelphia (1899) Internet Archive

• Sheppard, Walter Lee Jr., Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684. Volume 1 of Penn's Colony: Genealogical and Historical Materials Relating to the Settlement of Pennsylvania. Heritage Books (2009)

• Samuel Allen's Family by Edwin S Dunkerley

The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, XXXII:3, 198 Note: the following names of the owners of cattle in Bucks County in 1684, according to the entry in the original record: Phineas Pemberton, John Ackerman, Thomas Atkinson, SAMUEL ALLEN, William Biles, Nicholas Waline, Thomas Brock, G. Wheeler, Joshua Boare, Daniel Brinson, James Boyden, Jeremiah Langhorne, John Brock, Randall Blackshaw, H. Baker, George Brown, Lyonel Britton, Edmund Bennet, Charles Brigham, Job Bunting, Walter Bridgman, William Brian, Henry Bircham, William Buckman, Anthony Burto, Stephen Beaks, Charles Biles, William Biles Jr. Abraham Cox, Arthur Cook, Philp Conway, Robert Carter, Thomas Coverdell, Thomas cowgill, John Coates, Edmund Cutler, William Crosdell, Edward Doyal, Thomas Dungan, William Dungan, Samuel Dark, William Dark, Thomas Dicerson, Andrew Ellot, Joseph Milner, Hugh Marsh, Ralph Milner, John Otter, John Palmer, Henry Paxson, William Paxson, James Paxson, Eleanor Pownal, John Pursland (20) or John Penquoit, Henry Pointer, Richard Ridgway, Francis Rosell, Thomas Rowland, John Rowland, Thomas Royes, or Rough, Edward Stanton, William Sanford, Thomas Stackhouse, Henry Siddal, Jonathan Scaife, Thomas Stackhouse Jr. John Smith, Stephen Sands, William Smith, John Swift, Thomas Tuneclif, Israel Taylor, John Town, Gilbert Wheeler, Shadrack Walley, John Webster, William Wood, John Wood, Abraham Wharley, Peter Worral, Thomas Williams, William Yardley, Richard Wilson, John Clark, William Duncan, David Davids, WILLIAM PENN, and John Wharton, Source: http://www.gencircles.com/users/eloiseh/1/data/123

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Andrea Powell for contributions to this profile