Sarah (Unknown) Allen (1639 - aft. 1702)

Born 1639 in Beverly, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Wife of Samuel Allen — married 1660 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died after 1702 after age 63 in Manchester, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Disputed origins

Historical justification for her maiden name as Tuck has been elusive.

Family files sometimes report she died 15 February 1764 (and, in the context of the birth information then shown, well into her 90s) at sometimes Hampton, New Hampshire, yet no historical records are shown. The same files sometimes report her birth "April 30, 1669 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States," but Samuel Allen and his wife have a reported eldest child born before then.

In still other files, she is sometimes reported to have been born in 1636 at Beverly Massachsetts, and said the daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Tuck. These reports, too, lack historical justification.

In 1945, Donald Lines Jacobus wrote, ""According to Mr. Tingley's book, Some Ancestral Lines ... Samuel Allen and two of his sons (all three) married a Sarah Tuck of Beverly. This we doubt. ..."^[1]

In 1995, of her identification as a Tuck, Robert Charles Anderson cited Jacobus' work and wrote further, "She is said in some sources to be Sarah Tuck, but there is not evidence for this."^[2]

Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 report about the record of various Sarah Tucks born there, but the earliest of these records is for a birth in 1697.^[3] A 1717 marriage was recorded at Beverly for "Sarah [Tuck] and Samuel Allen, Jr., of Manchester."^[4]

Vital data updated to report Sarah (____) Allen died "after 1702" based on the will of her husband. According to source that follows, Samuel's will dated 21 November 1702, "devised and bequeathed certain properties to his wife Sarah (for life) ..."; the will was refused probate; see Raymond Frederick Allen, The Allens; from William Allen (1602-1679) of Manchester, England, and of Salem and Manchester, Massachusetts, in the direct line of descent through Nathaniel Allen (1744-1789) of Beverly, Massachusetts, and Sedgwick, Maine, to Lt. Raymond Frederick Allen, Jr. (1931- ) of Rochester, New York, with certain other descendants and collaterals …_ (Walton, N Y: Printed by the Reporter Co., 1958), pp. 1-20, sketch of William Allen (1602-1679).

Surname of "Tuck" suggested by Torrey, but not accepted by Great Migration.

Sources

1. ↑ Referring to Tingley's Some Ancestral Lines ... in Donald Lines Jacobus, The Granberry family and allied families, including the ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry, based on data collected by and for Edgar Francis Waterman (1945), 148 for Samuel^2 Allen; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2013).
2. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols. (1995):31-35 for William Allen article; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2012).
3. ↑ Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, 2 vols (1905-1907), 1:344; digital images, Massachusetts Vital Records Project (accessed 2014).
4. ↑ Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, 2 vols (1905-1907), 2:317; digital images, Massachusetts Vital Records Project (accessed 2014).

See also:

• Donald Lines Jacobus, The Granberry family and allied families, including the ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry, based on data collected by and for Edgar Francis Waterman (1945), 148 for Samuel^2 Allen; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2013).

• Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols. (1995):31-35 for William Allen article; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2012).

• Raymon Meyers Tingley, Some ancestral lines : being a record of some of the ancestors of Guilford Solon Tingley and his wife, Martha Pamelia Meyers / collected by their son (1935), 10-20, Allen; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).

• 1681 Sarah in entry for Benjamin Allen, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"; 27 January 2019; lauraannhenderson1; 1670; Sarah in entry for William Allen, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"

• Find A Grave: Memorial #183476805 Sarah Tuck