Samuel Allen (1702 - 1746)

Born 6 Apr 1702 in Deerfield, Franklin, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Hawks) Allen — married 3 Nov 1727 (to 1746) in Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 25 Aug 1746 at age 44 in Deerfield, Franklin, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

SAMUEL ALLEN... son of Edward born in Deerfield, Mass., 6 April 1702, married 3 November 1727, Hannah, daughter of Deacon Eleazer Hawks, who was with Captain Turner at Peskeomskut. She died 8 March 1771, aged 67.

Samuel Allen was in the King's service in 1725 under the command of Capt Joseph Kellogg was wounded in Father 'war and was killed during the old French war while resisting an Indian attack at the Bars Deerfield, 25 August 1746.^[1]

Samuel Allen, son of Edward and Mercy (Painter) Allen, was born in 1702. He lived in the house at the Bars (Deerfield) which George Fuller later used as his studio. In 1727, he married Hannah, daughter of Eleazer Hawks [born 1655]. The couple had 12 children, several of whom are mentioned below. Samuel was killed by Indians in 1746 (the Bars Fight); his widow died in 1771. His papers consist of plats of two lots, one east of the Green River, surveyed in 1736, and the other in the Second Division, Deerfield, undated; and by a list and evaluation of the extensive land holdings included in his estate (c. 1746). ^[2]

CHILDREN:

1. Samuel Allen (5), b. 21 My 1729; d. 28 Aug 1737
2. Sarah Allen (5-262), b. Franklin Co., MA, 2 June 1730
3. Chloe Allen (5), b. 4 Oct 1731; d. 25 Oct 1767; never married
4. Eunice Allen (5), b. 6 June 1733; d. 16 Oct 1818; unmarried
5. Hannah Allen (5), bapt. 13 Nov 1735; m. ____ Taylor
6. Caleb Allen (5), b. 30 Mar 1737; d. 26 Nov 1807; m. 4 Feb 1768, Judith Hawks
7. Samuel Allen (5), b. 30 Apr 1738; d. North Hero, VT, Feb 1833; m. 24 May 1764, Zilpha Hawks
8. Susanna Allen (5), b. 2 Aug 1739; m. 6 Oct 1774, Samuel Bodman, of Williamsburg, MA
9. Mercy Allen (5), b. 16 Apr 1741; d. 9 Oct 1765; unmarried
10. Lamberton Allen (5), bapt. 1 May 1742; d. 1813; m. 5 Dec 1770, Sarah Belden
11. Enoch Allen (5), b. 27 Nov 1744; d. Ashfield, MA, 8 Jul 1789; m. 28 Nov 1771, Mercy Belding
12. Ichabod Allen (5), b. after his father's death; died in infancy.

His sister, Sarah, was captured by the indians and taken to Canada where she remained and married a Frenchman.

Samuel Allen, 6 April 1702 – 25 August 1746 (error death date 1765) (LDS Profile LZTH-YM8)

FamilySearch Life Sketch: "Samuel, son of Edward Allyn, b 1702; lived at the Bars in the house occupied by Geo. Fuller as his studio; he was killed by Indians, August 25, 1746, while bravely defending his children from the savage foe. (See ante, p 546)

His gravestone in the old burying ground bears the following epitaph:

'Listen to me ye mortal men Bewar That you engage no more in direful War. By meanse of War my Soul from Earth is fled, my Body Lodged in Mansions of the dead'

He m. Nov. 3, 1727 Hannah, dau of Eleazer Hawks; she d. Mar. 8, 1771, age 67."

Samuel was born in 1702. He passed away in 1746. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Converse
2. ↑ Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association: "GUIDE TO THE ALLEN FAMILY PAPERS.
3. ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Gary Allen.

• Converse, Charles Allen. Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr. (Eben Putnam, Boston, Mass., 1905) Vol. 2, Page 691.
• Batinski, Michael. Pastkeepers in a Small Place: Five Centuries in Deerfield, Massachusetts (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004) Page 51
• Sheldon, George. A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts (Greenfield, Mass., Press of E.A. Hall & co., 1895) Page 12
• Vital Records of Deerfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1920) Page 12. Birth record.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #32553597
• Williams, Stephen. What Befell Stephen Williams In His Captivity (Deerfield, Mass., 1889)

• Page 26: "wounded by a Shoot going into his Buttock."
• Page 34: "He was killed by Indians, while bravely defending his children from the Indians"

• familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZTH-YM8