Nehemiah Allen Sr. (1699 - 1785)

Born 22 Apr 1699 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Parker) Allen — married 28 Feb 1721 in Needham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 1 Nov 1785 at age 86 in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

"Sketches" states about the year 1736, Nehemiah removed to Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Three nephews, sons of Joseph Allen Jr. went with him. The three were Joseph Allen the third, Moses, and Aaron. Joseph and Moses were town officers the year following the incorporation of the town in 1738. There was another progenitor of the Allen family in Sturbridge, Issac Allen, also from Medfield.

Nehemiah, the tenth child of Joseph and Hannah is the lineage of Cyrus Graves Allen. Nehemiah is the second great-grandfather of Cyrus Graves. (He is the 6th great-grandfather of Dellen Nicholas.)

Name

Nehemiah Allen, Sr.^[1][2]

Birth

1699^[1][3]

Baptism

21 MAY 1699 Medfield, Massachusetts (Dedham)^[1]

Residence

Sturbridge, Massachusetts^[4]

Marriage

1675^[5]

Wife: Hannah Sabine

Child: Nehemiah Allen

Nehemiah was born in 1699. son of Joseph & Hannah (Sabine). He married Mary Parker and they had eleven children. He passed away in 1785.

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[6] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Allen
2. ↑ Hutchinson: Page 7, 41, 75 Of these twelve children of Joseph and Hannah Allen, I have been able to obtain reliable information of only four, Noah, Eliezer, Hezekiah, and Nehemiah
3. ↑ Hutchinson: Page 7
4. ↑ Hutchinson: Page 75
5. ↑ Hutchinson: Page 75
6. ↑ Allen-14563 was created by Whitney Fitzgerald through the import of Freemesser Family Tree.ged on Jul 23, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.

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• Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 [1]

Nehemiah Allen

Birth Event Date: 22 Apr 1699

Event Place: Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

Father's Name: Joseph Allen

Mother's Name: Hannah

• Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) [2]

Nehemiah ALLEN

Marriage 2/28/1721

Location Needham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

Original Text Needham Marriages 1720-1798

Spouse Mary Parker

Volume Name 56 Page 30

• Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 [3]

Nehemiah Allen

Event Type: Death

Event Date: Nov 1785

Event Place: Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

• With 56 sources: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L6MD-JRV

Footnotes

• Vital Records Of Medfield, To The Year 1850, Births, p. 17: "[Allin] Nehemiah, s. Joseph and Hann[torn]' Apr. 22, 1699
• Vital Records Of Sturbridge, To The Year 1850, Deaths, p.. 300: "[Allen] Nehemiah, palpatation, --------- , 1785."

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 December 2020), memorial page for Nehemiah Allen (22 Apr 1699–1 Nov 1785), Find A Grave: Memorial #106896491, citing Old Burial Ground, Sturbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Jan Barrett (contributor 47405867) .

(No Headstone) - Old Burial Ground - Sturbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA

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