 Est 1617 - 1696
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| Name |
Ralph Allen |
| Born |
Est 1617 |
England  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Will |
18 Dec 1691 |
Sandwich, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts [2] |
- "Ralph Allin of Sandwich" makes bequests to children John, Joseph, Increase, Ebenezer, Zachariah and Patience. Named as overseers "my brother William Allen and Edward Perry."
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| Died |
Mar 1695/96 |
Sandwich, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts [3] |
| Notes |
- List of those able to bear arms in New Plymouth. This Ralph Allen was known as Ralph Allen Sr. (wheelright) to be distinguished from another Ralph Allen in Sandwich records & who is not related.
In October 1657, Ralph Allen and William Newland were the first men charged for Quaker activities in Sandwich, and were jailed for refusing to post surety for good behavior. They spent five months in jail in the winter and were released at the March 1657/58 court after paying fines. He subsequently refused to take the oath of fidelity (five cases from 1659-1661). The practice of fining Quakers stopped in 1661 when the King of England ordered Massachusetts Bay to stop hanging Quakers and inflicting physical punishment such as flogging or cutting off their ears. Plymouth Colony followed suit by stopping their harrassment of the Quakers. Ralph was well known to the court as the most abusive and belligerant of the Quaker activists, and the first brought into court.
In 1671 he was chosen surveyor in Sandwich. [4, 5]
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| Person ID |
I46449 |
Bryant |
| Last Modified |
30 Nov 2003 |
| Father |
George Allen, b. Abt 1592, England , d. Apr 1648, Sandwich, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts |
| Mother |
Unknown |
| Married |
Bef 1609 |
England [6] |
| Family ID |
F3111 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
Susanna, d. Bef 1691 |
| Married |
Abt 1633 |
Somerset, England [1, 3, 7] |
- Her given name in many sources is Susanna, but without record evidence cited. Analysis of other Allen names in the separate lists of men & women witnesses indicates that, when the known wives are paired with their husbands, in all cases Ralph and Susanna are left, indicating that they were probably married.
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| Children |
| | 1. Philip Allen, b. Abt 1635, probably, Weymouth, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts |
| | 2. Benjamin Allen, b. Abt 1637, probably, Weymouth, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts |
| | 3. John Allen, b. Est 1640, probably, Sandwich, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts |
| | 4. Joseph Allen, b. Abt 1642, probably, Sandwich, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts , d. Sep 1704, Dartmouth, Bristol Co, Massachusetts |
| | 5. Ebenezer Allen, b. 10 Feb 1648/49, Sandwich, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts |
| | 6. Increase Allen, b. 1650, probably, Sandwich, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts , d. 1724 |
| | 7. Zachariah Allen, b. 1652, Massachusetts |
| | 8. Patience Allen, b. 1654, Massachusetts |
| | 9. Meary Allen, b. Est 1656, Massachusetts , d. Apr 1675, Sandwich, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts |
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| Family ID |
F3104 |
Group Sheet |
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| Sources |
- [S312] The Great Migration, Anderson, Robert Charles & George F. Sanborn, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999), p. 28.
- [S312] The Great Migration, Anderson, Robert Charles & George F. Sanborn, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999), p. 33.
- [S335] McClain Ahnentafel, Karen McClain, (1995).
- [S13] NEHGR, NEHGR, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), 4:257.
- [S13] NEHGR, NEHGR, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), 155:214.
- [S14] Torrey, Editor: Torrey, Clarence Almon, (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985, Baltimore, MD, 1985 (reprint)), p. 10.
- [S14] Torrey, Editor: Torrey, Clarence Almon, (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985, Baltimore, MD, 1985 (reprint)), p. 12.
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