Ebenezer Allen (1671 - 1733)

Born 1 Mar 1671 in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Rebecca (Russell) Allen — married 14 Apr 1698 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 14 May 1733 at age 62 in Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Sources

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G4MQ-BYH

• Russell, Gurdon Wadsworth. An Account of Some of The Descendants of John Russell (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn., 1910) Page 128.

• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MWRY-Y4C

See also:

• Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Image

Mr Ebenezer Allen

Marriage Date: 14 Apr 1698

Marriage Place: Barnstable, Massachusetts

Spouse Name: Rebecca Russel

• Collins, James Wade Ferris. The Family and American Descendants of Deacon Edward Collins of Cambridge, Medford, and Charlestown, Massachusetts, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2020) Vol. 174, Page 262.

Ebenezer Allen, son of James Allen was born about 1672. ^[1]

• 1698: His father granted Ebenezer one half of his father's home farm of 250 acres, available at his parents' decease. ^[2]
• 1701-15: Sheriff Dukes County ^[3]
• 1703: March 31: He bought about 330 acres at Oak Bluffs from his father James, again as a land speculator. ^[2]
• 1705: December: He bought the entire land and holdings of John Daggett of Checkemoo, likely as speculation. ^[2]
• 1715 and 1729: Justice of the Peace. ^[3]
• 1722; Representative at Chilmark. ^[3]
• 1725-9: Served as selectman and treasurer. ^[3]
• 1727: May 10: Ebenezer signed a 21 year lease for 800 acres at Gays Head. ^[2]

He married Rebecca Russell, daughter of Jonathan Russell ^[2] on April 14, 1698 at Barnstable, Massachusetts. ^[4] Rebecca was born at Hadley, Massachusetts on July 7, 1681, daughter of Jonathan Russell and Martha Moody. ^[5]

Ebenezer is buried in the Abel Hill Cemetery, Chilmark,, Massachusetts, where his inscription reads: Here Lyes Buried the/ Body of EBENEZER /ALLEN Esq; Who Died/ May the 14th 1733: / In the 62nd Year of / His Age. "A Lover of Hospitality." ^[6]