Deacon Obadiah Allen

From Ecclesiastical and Other Sketches of Southington, Conn (Google eBook) Heman Rowlee Timlow Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1875 - Southington (Conn.) - 578 pages. page xiii. "Southington Genealogies.":

Samuel Allen, from Braintree, Essex County, England, came to this country, and settled first at Cambridge, Mass.; thence to Windsor, Conn., about 1635, where he died April, 1648, leaving his wife, Ann, and six children. She removed to Northampton, Mass., and married again.

Children—

1. Samuel, m., 1650, Hannah Woodford, find went to Northampton;
2. Nehemiah, in., 1664,Sarah Woodford;
3. John, m. Mary Hannum, and settled in Deerfield;
4. Abigail;
5. Obadiah

Obadiah Allen, son of Samuel, of Windsor, m. Oct. 28, 1669, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Sandford, of Milford. He settled in Middletown, and became deacon of the church. His wife died, when he married (2) Mary, widow of John Wetmore. He died April 7, 1712, and his second wife, Mary, Oct. 26, 1723.

Children.—

1. Obadiah, ft. Sept. 27, 1670;
2. Thomas, ft. Sept. 20, 1672; d. Nov. 8, 1672;
3. Thomas, A. Sept. 27, 1673; m. Hannah Leek; d. Dec. 8,1733;
4. Mary, b. Sept. 15, 1675;
5. Anna, ft. Sept 12, 1677;
6. Thankful, b. Sept. 8,1679;
7. Samuel, b. March 16, 1685; m. June 23, 1714, Mary Andrews, of Milford;
8. John, b. Sept. 27, 1786; m. Sept. 28, 1713, Mary Howe, of Wallingford.

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He was a great-great uncle of Ethan Allen.