Rev. Benjamin Allen

Biography

Benjamin was the first child in Tisbury to obtain a high education. He graduated from Yale University in 1708 and studied theology under Rev Jonathan Russell. His parishes were in Worcester, Bridgewater, and Falmouth.

Benjamin married Elizabeth Crocker 5 Apr 1712 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, MA. To this union were born ten children. Four children died in Cape Elizabeth, ME of diphtheria in infancy. Joseph matriculated at Harvard, but did not graduate. Hannah married Rev Samuel Emery. Priscilla married Rev. W. V. (Caleb?) Upham. A daughter married Rev Joseph Crocker. Elizabeth married Clement Jordan. Dorcas married Tristram Jordan.

Fact: Burial (1754) South Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States
Benjamin Allen born about 1689 in Tisbury on the island of Martha's Vineyard, son of James and Elizabeth (Perkins) Allen and grandson of Samuel Allen of Braintree, MA.[1]

Graduated Yale 1708.

He married on 5 Apr 1712 to Elizabeth Crocker, daughter of Deacon Job and Hannah (Taylor) Crocker of Barnstable.

His eldest daughter married Rev Stephen Emery (Havard college 1730).

Another married the Rev. Caleb Upham (Havard college 1744) of Truro, also on Cape Cod.

Another married Rev Joseph Crocker (Havard college 1734) of the south parish in Eastham, now Orleans.

He had 9 children, six of which survive him, a son and five daughters.

He died 6 May 1754.

Burial Mount Pleasant Cemetery, South Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, USA[2]

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Benjamin Allen (1689 - 1754)

Rev. Benjamin Allen

Born 1689 in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts

Son of James Allen and Elizabeth (Partridge) Allen

Brother of Samuel Allen, John Allen, Amy (Allen) Hatch, Mary (Allen) Lasell, Abigail (Allen) Seabury, Ruth (Allen) Bangs, Ebenezer Allen, Ichabod Allen, James Allen Jr, Samuel Allen, John Allen, Joseph Allen, Sarah (Allen) Luce and Ebenezer Allen

Husband of Elizabeth (Crocker) Allen — married 5 Apr 1712 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Father of Abigail Allen, Darcas Allen, Jordan Allen, Joseph Allen, Unknown (Allen) Upham, Hannah (Allen) Emery, Reliance Allen, Elizabeth (Allen) Jordan, Joseph Allen, Dorcas (Allen) Jordan and Priscilla Allen

Died 6 May 1754 at about age 65 in Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Profile last modified 8 Dec 2021 | Created 1 Mar 2011

Sources

↑ "Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale college history, 1701-1815" by Franklin Bowditch Dexter, pub 1885 p 74 https://archive.org/stream/biogsketchgrad01dextuoft#page/74/mode/1up
↑ Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52284237 : accessed 23 November 2016), memorial page for Rev Benjamin Allen (1689 - 1754) - Find A Grave Memorial.
"Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 04 May 2018, 17:51), entry for Benjamin Allen(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LC8Z-L66); contributed by various users
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See also:

Frost, Josephine C., Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams (Not Published, 1920) Page 33
Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence (subscription). CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Vol. Yale page 40
Banks, Charles. The History of Martha's Vineyard (G.H. Dean, Boston, 1911) Vol. 2: Town Annals. Page 65-7