Ephraim Allen (abt. 1691 - 1776)

Born about 1691 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Susanna (Beacon) Allen — married 28 Nov 1716 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 15 Feb 1776 at about age 85 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Ephraim Allen was born about 1691.

He married Susanna Beacon (Bacon) 28 November 1716 in Roxbury.^[1] Ephraim, and Susanna Beacon, Nov. 28, 1716.

In an indenture dated 21 November 1742, Ephraim, of Westborough, grants to son Samuel One messuage or Tract of Land Containing thirty three acres by Estemation be the Same more or less with a house and Barn and a Corn Mill with all Stock of Cattle Sheep Swine said Tract of Land Lying in Two peices... Samuel, in turn, is to Well and Truly and faithfully Take care of his honoured parents and provide all things for them Nesseary for the Comfort & Support of human Life both in sickness and In helth and that In Season from Time to time (vizt) both food and Rayment Duering the whole Term of Naturall Life and Likewise at the Decease of each of them Shall bury them in Decent & Christian Manner and Shall pay unto his brothers Elijah Allen & Ephraim Allen, when they Shall Come to the age of one & Twenty Years the sum of Ten pound a peice of our present Lawfull money of the sum of forty pounds of the old forme & Tenor - and also to pay out unto his Sisters vizt. Abigall Maynard the sum of five pounds of Lawfull money with what she hath already Recd. will make up the Sum of Ten pound of our Lawfull money and Sussanna hath already Recd. ye sum of Ten pounds of Lawfull money and also to pay unto Sarah & Hannah to Each of them when they Shall Come to the Age of Eighteen Years or if they Shall marry Before they Shall Come to the age of Eighteen to pay them the sum of Ten pounds of our Lawfull money (which we mean of four Double) and in case if either of his brothers or sisters that have not as yet Recd any thing by Reason of their Non age if they shall any of them Decease before they Shall Come of Age to Receive the said Sum of money abovementioned then to pay the Same to ye Surving brothers or sisters at the Time when they would have Come of age to be Divided equally Amoung them and also to keep & provide food and Rayment for the above named Elijah & Ephraim & Sarah & hannah untill they Come of Lawfull age...^[2]

He died 15 February 1776 in Northborough.^[3] *Ephraim, Feb. 15, 1776, in 85th year.

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Roxbury Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, Vol. II, p. 12
2. ↑ Worcester County, Massachusetts, Deeds
3. ↑ Vital Records of Northborough, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1850, p. 125

• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch  (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHZ9-D59 : 24 January 2020), Susanna Beacon in entry for Ephraim Allin, 28 Nov 1716, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87379624/ephraim-allen : accessed 05 February 2018), memorial page for Ephraim Allen, Jr (1691–15 Feb 1776), Find A Grave Memorial no. 87379624, citing Howard Street Cemetery, Northborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Beth Finch McCarthy (contributor 47259607) . (Note: This memorial has likely attached an incorrect father for Ephraim.)

• Ephraim Allen, FamilySearch profile, person ID LZK3-TVL, at: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZK3-TVL .

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