Rev. James Allen

Rev. James Allen

• Birth: Jun. 24, 1632 Hampshire, England
• Death: Sep. 22, 1710 Boston Suffolk County Massachusetts
• Burial: Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Inscription: 79yrs

Reverend at the First Church of Boston.

family

Ellis, Arthur B. History of the First Church in Boston. (Boston, Massachusetts: Hall and Whiting), [118-9.

James Allen, b. 24 Jun 1632, d. 22 Sep 1710. Father was a minister in Hampshire, England. He m. (1) 18 Aug 1663 Hannah Dummer, m. (2) Elizabeth (Houchin) Endicott, m. (3) 11 Sep 1673 Sarah (Hawkins) Breck.

Reverend at the First Church of Boston.

He married, first, on Aug 18,1663 at Boston, Hannah Dummer. Apparently no children were born of this union.

He married, second, on Aug 31,1668, Elizabeth (Houchin) Endicott, the widow of John Endicott Jr.

He married, third, on Sep 11,1673 at Boston,MA, Sarah (Hawkins) Breck. She was the daughter of Capt.Thomas Hawkins and Mary Welles Hawkins of Dorchester and Boston, and widow of Robert Breck.

Children(by second marriage): Hannah Allen Danforth, James Allen Jr, John Allen, and Jeremiah Allen.

Children(by third marriage): Thomas Allen and Sarah Allen, both died young.

biographical notes

From First Church of Boston - Ministers

5. James Allen, born, Hampshire, England, 1632. Son of Hampshire Minister. Matriculated Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1649. Chaplain, New College, 1649. Fellow, New College, 1650. BA, 1652, Masters, 1654. Ejected for non-conformity, 1662, moved to New England. FCB, 1668-1710. Fellow, Harvard College, 1700. Died in Boston, age 78.

From THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON, INCLUDING SUFFOLK COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1880. JUSTIN WINSOR 1886 Page 45 "The Hinckley Mansion"

15. William Kirkby, h. and g.; sold to James Hawkins. This, or the upper part of No. 1, was the lot upon which, later, the Rev. James Allen, of the First Church, built his famous stone house, which, when taken down after the war of 1812 to give place to the dwellings erected by David Hinckley, and now constituting the Congregational House, was thought to be the oldest stone house in the town. Allen had married the widow of the younger John Endicott, Elizabeth, the daughter of the tanner Jeremy Houchin. Allen devised, in 1710, his mansion-house to his son Jeremiah, who dying in 1741 it came to his son Jeremiah, dying in 1755, when the title finally passed to his son James, who sold it to his brother Jeremiah, the high sheriff, who died in 1809. Gleaner Articles, No. 33.

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  • Dunkle, Robert J., and Ann S. (Ann Smith) Lainhart. Deaths in Boston 1700 to 1799. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, c1999). Allen, Rev. James, [died] 22 Sept, 1710, 78 y.

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• Sibley's Harvard Graduates, Class of 1717. "JAMES ALLEN,a Boston merchant, was born in that town on December 25, 1697, a grandson of the Reverend James Allen and a son of the Jeremiah Allen who became treasurer of the province in 1715. The wife of Jeremiah and mother of James was Mary Caball."
• Residence: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  • Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Feb 14 2017, 3:05:11 UTC
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Feb 14 2017, 4:36:45 UTC
• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Feb 14 2017, 4:51:54 UTC

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References

1. Wilcox, Wayne H. M. "Captain Thomas Hawkins, Shipwright, of London and Dorchester, Mass", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), 151:203 https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-...