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Nehemiah Allen Jr. (1765 - 1852)

Nehemiah Allen Jr.
Born in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts Baymap
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Died at about age 86 [location unknown]
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Biography

Nehemiah, son of Nehemiah Allen and Abiah Thomas, was born on 12 Mar 1765 at Middleborough, Plymouth County, MA.[1] Sometime after 1790, Nehemiah went to Pawlet, VT, living alternately there and in Granville, NY. Nehemiah died in 1852 age 87.

He and Mary 'Molly' BOTHWELL registered their intent to marry on 19 Mar 1787 at Oakham, Worcester County, MA; (int.); children (surname ALLEN):

  1. Lucy
  2. Jane

He served during the Revolution from 27 Aug 1781 to 7 Nov 1781 Captain Cutler's Company at West Point. He was in Rochester NY when the site was offered him for 1s per acre.

Sources

  1. Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, (AmericanAncestors.org: NEHGS, 2001-2010), Middleborough v1, p 141; giving "Hehemiah Allen Son of Nehemiah Allen by Abia his wife was Born March 12th 1765."
  • Henry Parks Wright, Soldiers of Oakham, Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1914); digital images, Ancestry.com, p 37-8; giving dob, place, parents, dod, info for ch, service in Rev.
  • Birth: see Middleborough, MA Vital Records. Available FREE at: www.midlib.org
  • Hiel Hollister, Pawlet One Hundred Years, (Albany NY: J. Munsell, 1867), 20: Revolutionary War veteran who stayed in Pawlet until his death.
 ??, 158: "was an early settler from Worcester, Mass., living alternately in this town and in Granville, N.Y. He was in Rochester, N.Y., when the present site of that city was offered him for one shilling per acre. He died in 1852, aged 87; his wife in 1841, aged 73. His oldest daughter married David Whedon; his youngest daughter, Jane, Ansel Whedon, who died in 1831, aged 36. She then married William Clark, of Whitehall, N.Y., and died in 1850, aged 50.

Acknowledgements

  • This person was created through the import of Middletown families minus.ged on 10 February 2011.




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Allen-38926 and Allen-1851 appear to represent the same person because: Same dates, daughter married same name.
posted by Sue (Howard) Ison

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