Family:Deacon Allen and Eliza Doolittle (1)

Source: Biographical review : this volume contains biographical sketches of the leading citizens of Hampden County, Massachusetts.. Boston. Biographical Review Pub. Co.. 1889, p. 865-866.

Deacon Robert Allen, father of Orrin P. Allen, was born in shutesbury, Mass., April 16, 1805, removing with his parents to Wallingford, Vt. in 1806. He died in Vernon, Vt., August 21, 1889, was a real estate owner and farmer in Vernon, where he was for many years a Deacon of the Church of the Advent, a man widely known for his hospitality, integrity, and piety. He married October 23, 1832, Eliza Paine Doolittle, born in Townshend, Vt., February 25, 1812, daughter of Roswell and Carissa (Burt) Doolittle-- son of Amzi and Jerusha (Smith) Doolittle (she, Jerusha, was great-grand-daughter of the Rev. Henry Smith, of Weathersfield, 1640); son of the Rev. Benjamin and Lydia (Todd) Doolittle, of Northfield; son of John and Mary (Peck) Doolittle, of Wallingford, Conn., where he was one of the leading men. Abraham Doolittle was the son of Sir Archibald Clark, Laird of Doolittle, of County Midlothian, Scotland, who was descended from Sir Alamus Clark, of Comrie Castle, in 1349. The Laird of Doolittle was Assistant Secretary to James I of England. His son, Abraham Doolittle, was born in London in 1620. It is said that the Laird, being a Puritan, would "do little" for the Church of England, and in consequence received the sobriquet of Doolittle, which name his descendants adopted...

The children of Robert and Eliza Pain Allen are: Orrin Peer, born September 30, 1833. Jason Cady, born in Wallingford, Vt., February 26, 1835, married Dec 1, 1864, Mary S. Combes; he is a real estate owner and farmer in Vernon, Vt., where he is a Justice of the Peace, and has been an Assessor and Selectman. Julia Augusta, born July 30, 1837, in Newfane, Vt., died there, January 23, 1839. Charles Anderson, born in Jamaica, Vt., February 1, 1840, married September 6, 1864, Abbie E. Ball, and died in early manhood at Athens, Vt., August 11, 1865; his wife died September 9, 1872. Robert Clark, born in Jamaica, Vt., October 8, 1842, married, first, June 16, 1864, Jane A. Rockwood, of North Springfield, Vt., who died April 29, 1867; married second October 3, 1867, Lucy C. Lockwood, who died November 7, 1868; married, third, November 15, 1869, Mrs. Hattie M. Henry. He resides in North Springfield, Vt., where he is a carpenter and road supervisor. Sarah Augusta, born in Jamaica, Vt., October 30, 1846, married January 18, 1869, Lafayette Stoddard, who resides in Vernon, Vt. Vesta Eliza, born in Windham, Vt., November 6, 1854, died in Vernon, January 16, 1862.

1. ↑ Biographical Sketches (Windham Co., VT)
   p. 866.