1635 A Samuel Allen was among the "Freeman made att the Generall Court, May 6th, 1635" in the Massachusetts Bay of New England. [1]
1638 Samuel, George, and Ralph Allen were admitted to Newport, Rhode Island. [2]
Inhabitants admitted at the Towne of Nieu-Port since the 20th of the 3rd 1638.
… John Merchant, July 2. Jeremy Gould, Enoch Hunt, Nathaniel Adams, Samuel Allen, George Allen, Ralph Allen, Mr. Thomas Burton, Henry Bishop, John Hicks, Edward Browse, Mathew Gridell, Aug. 6.
1639 "Sarai the daughtr of Samuel Allen and Anne his wife was borne 30o (1o) 1639" in Braintree, Massachusetts. [3]
1639/40 Samuel Allen was granted land in Mount Wollaston. [4]
The 24th day of the 12th moneth, February, 1639.
At a Meeting this day, there is granted ... The like to Samuel Allen, of the same [Mount Wollaston], for 7 heads, 28 Acrs there [at the Mount], upon the same Covenant of 3s. p. Acre.
1641 "Anne the wife of Samuel Allen dyed 29o (7o) 1641" in Braintree, Massachusetts. [5]
c 1649 Samuel Allen married Margaret Lamb, widow of Edward Lamb.
The Great Migration biosketch of Edward Lamb states that Edward Lamb immigrated to New England in 1633, that Edward and his wife Margaret first resided in Watertown, and that, [6]
[Edward Lamb] received the full range of land grants in Watertown: a seven-acre houselot; twenty rods for a garden; three acres of plowland; four acres of meadow; twenty-five acres of upland in the Great Divident in the third division, lot #6; seven and a half acres of upland beyond the further plain, and a farm of sixty-five acres [WaBOP 4, 7, 9, 13, 41]. He added "one acre of meadow ... in Patch Meadow ... granted to him" [WaBOP 94]. On 15 March 1647/8 Edward Lamb of Watertown sold to Charles Stearns five of these parcels [SLR 1:101].
1648 Edward and Margaret Lamb removed to Boston about 1648. Their daughter, Elizabeth, was baptized in the First Church, Boston, on 27 August 1648, "Elizabeth of Edward & Margaret Lambe member of Ch. of Watertowne aged about 11 days 27 day 6 mo." [7]
1650 Joseph Allen, son of Mr. Samuel Allen, was born on May 15 in Braintree. [8]
1650 On 16 October, the General Court granted administration on the estate of Edward Lamb to Samuel Allen. [9]
Margrett Allen, late wife of Edward lambe, preferringe a petition to this Court to be enabled, either by her selfe or her husband, to make a firme deede of sale of a certayne howse vnto one Thomas Boyden, for the supply of her present necessitie, receiued this answer: That this Court doth order, that an administration be graunted to the estate of Edward lambe vnto Samuel Allen, & also power to confirme the sale of the mentioned howse to the said Thomas Boyden, according to her desire. Per Curiam.
1669 Samuel Allen wrote his will on August 2. [10] An abstract states, [11]
Samuel Allen. August 2, 1669. The last will and Testament of Samuel Allen, of Braintry, in the County of Suffolke in New England, being uery weake in Body, yet of perfect memory and vnderstanding. What debts I owe, be paid with as much speed as may bee conuenient. I Giue vnto my sonn, Samuell Allen, £20, to bee paid him or his out of my Estate, £10 within one yeare after my decease, and £10 within three yeares after the first payment bee made. Vnto my sonn James Allen, £5, to be paid him or his within three yeares after my decease. Vnto my sonn-in-law, Josiah Standish, £10, to bee paid him or his, £5 within one yeare after my decease, and the other £5 within two yeares after the first payment bee made. Vnto my sonn-in-law Nathaniel Greenwood, £5, to bee paid him or his within three yeares after my decease. Vnto my dau. Abigail, £30, to bee paid vnto her when shee shall bee at the Age of 21 yeares. The rest of my Estate, as House and land and what Else remains, I leave betweene my beloved wife and my sonn, Joseph Allen, that is to say, that my wife shall haue halfe the bennifit of House and land and what Euer Estate may bee left after the discharge of the legacies, during her life, and the other halfe to my sonn Joseph. Prouided they both joyne together in what is necessary for the support of such as are left in the family. My will is, that if my sonn Joseph shall marry where his thoughts haue first binn, that what Estate hee hath shall remaine to his Children. If it please God hee die without issue, his Estate, after his wiues Death, shall returne to my Children. My will is, that my wife shall haue liberty to Giue vnto any of her Children to the whole uallue of £10, where she shall see need. I make my wife, and my sonn Joseph, my Executrix and Executor of this my will—wittnes the hand of Samuel Allen.
Wittnes: Francis Elliot, Thomas Holbrook, John French.
1669 Samuel Allen died at on August 5 in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts. "Samuel Allin dyed the 6th mo. 5th. 1669." [12]
1669 The inventory of the estate of Samuel Allen was taken on August 27, and his will proved on September 16. [13] [14]
16 Sept., 1669. Francis Elliot and John French deposed.
Inventory of the Estate taken 6th mo. 27th day, 1669, by Francis Elliott, John French. Amt. £228 12 09.
16 September, 1669. Margaret Allen Executrix, and Joseph Allen the eldest sonn, Executor to the last will of Samuel Allen, deposed.
Research Notes:
Braintree included land which later became Randolph, Holbrook, and Quincy Massachusetts. Braintree was in Suffolk county until Norfolk County was formed in 1793. Mount Wollaston was in the part of Braintree that became Quincy.
Mitchell, in his history of Bridgewater, states, [15]
Samuel Allen of Braintree and his wife Ann, had Samuel 1632, Joseph, James, Sarah 1639, Mary and Abigail. His w. Ann d. 1641, and he had a 2d. w. Margaret; whether she was mother of any of the children is not known; his will 1669, wherein the children are named in the above order.—Sarah m. Lieut. Josiah Standish.—Mary m. Nathaniel Greenwood 1655.—Abigail probably m. John Cary 1670.
1. Samuel Allen, a Deacon, and son of Samuel Allen above named, settled in E. B. as early as 1660, and was the second town clerk, to whom we are much indebted for the fulness and perfection of the records; he m. Sarah, D. of George Partridge of Duxbury; she was born 1639; they had Samuel 1660, Essiel 1663, Mehitabel 1663, Sarah 1667, Bethiah 1669, Nath'l 1672, Ebenezer 1674, Josiah 1677, Elisha 1679, Nehemiah 1681. His will 1703; he d 1703 ae. 71.—Mehitabel m. Isaac Alden 1685.—Sarah m. Jonathan Cary, who d. about 1695, and she afterwards m. Benjamin Snow 1705.—Bethiah m. John Pryor.
Bowman states, [16]
Samuel Allen who came first to Braintree in 1629 and then to Sandwich in 1637 as per colonial records was the father of James Allen, born in 1636, the ancestor of the Vineyard Allens: he was one of the proprietors of the manor of Tisbury on the Vineyard and died in 1714 aged 78.
[1] Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, Vol. 1 (Boston:Press of William White, 1853), 370, right column, [InternetArchive].
[2] John Russell Bartlett, Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, Vol. 1, 1636-1663 (1856), 92, [InternetArchive].
[3] David Pulsifer, "Records of Boston," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 3 (1849), 38-40, 126-127, and 247-248 at 126, [AmericanAncestors].
[4] William H. Whitmore, ed., Second Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing the Boston Records, 1634-1660, and The Book of Possessions, 2nd edn. (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1881), 49, [HathiTrust].
[5] David Pulsifer, "Records of Boston," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 3 (1849), 38-40, 126-127, and 247-248 at 126, [AmericanAncestors].
[6] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1151, [AmericanAncestors].
[7] William H Whitmore and William S Appleton, Report of the Record Commissioners containing Boston Births, baptisms, marriages and deaths 1630-1699 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1883), 28, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[8] Samuel A. Bates, ed., Records of the town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793 (Randolph, Mass: Daniel H. Huxford, printer 1886), 635, "Joseph Allen Son of Mr. Samuel Allen was born 15th May, Anno Dom: 1650.", [HathiTrust].
[9] Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, Vol. 3 (Boston:Press of William White, 1854), 216, [InternetArchive].
[10] Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, Suffolk County, Massachusetts: Probate File Papers (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2020), [AmericanAncestors].
[11] William B. Transk, "Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on Record and on the Files in the County of Suffolk, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 19 (1865), 307-311, at 310, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[12] Samuel A. Bates, ed., Records of the town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793 (Randolph, Mass: Daniel H. Huxford, printer 1886), 639, [HathiTrust].
[13] Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, Suffolk County, Massachusetts: Probate File Papers (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2020), [AmericanAncestors].
[14] William B. Transk, "Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on Record and on the Files in the County of Suffolk, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 19 (1865), 307-311, at 310, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[15] Nahum Mitchell, History of the early settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts (Boston: Kidder & Wright, 1840), 93-94, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[16] Eli Bowman, "Notes, Allen Bible Records," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 83 (1929), 507-511, at 507, [AmericanAncestors].