John Allen (1797 - 1875)

Born 21 Sep 1797 in Scotland, Windham, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Died 22 Feb 1875 at age 77 in Hanover, Sprague, New London, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

John was born in 1797. He is the son of Enoch Allen and Betsy Witter.

Mr. Allen was the third son and fourth child of Enoch and Betsey (Witter) Allen, who were married in 1794. They had five children: Asa Witter, born 1795; John, 1797; Eliza, (died young); Martin, 1807; and David, 1809. Enoch Allen was born in Windham, Connecticut, May 23, 1768. His father, Asahel Allen, was born in the same place in the year 1742. The Allen family were among the earliest of the New England colonists. Martin Allen is a direct descendent of Samuel and Ann Allen, of Bridgewater, Somersetshire, England, who located at Braintree, Massachusetts, ten miles south of Boston, in the early part of the seventeenth century.

Sources

• History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Volume II, Cleveland, H. Z. Wiliams & Bro., 1882, pp. 108-109

• John Allen: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KFPM-11S