Person:Bethia Allen (3)

Bethia Allen

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m. 23 Nov 1732

Facts and Events

Name	Bethia Allen
Gender	Female
Birth^[2]^[3]	Abt 1740	Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Death^[1]	4 May 1741	Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1916)
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Allen, ---, ch. James, [died] May 4, 1741. PR4
↑ Mitchell, Nahum. History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts: including an extensive family register. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Printed for the author by Kidder & Wright, 1840 (reprinted 1897))
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Children of James Allen and Mary Packard: Bethiah, b. 1740, d. young.
↑ Do not confuse with Person:Bethia Allen (4), whose birth is recorded in Source:Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, p. 1:27: Allen, Bithia, ch. James and Bethia [sic], [born] Mar. 12, 1740. That Bethia belongs to a different family, Family:James Allen and Bethia Kingman (1).

One must question how Mitchell knows that the infant in this family was named Bethia, since her birth is not recorded, only her death, which gives no name. If the name of this infant was Bethia, one would expect that since she died in 1741, the next female child, Susanna b. 1742, would have been given the name of Bethia instead of Susanna. But whatever the name, since both of two children in the other family (James and Bethia (Kingman) Allen) lived to marry, it is clear the death record for a child of James must belong to this family.