Person:Elizabeth Bacon (6)

Notes on the Identity of John Allen's Wife

"John Allen married, says Mr. Austin, on 14 Oct. 1650, Elizabeth Bacon. Christopher Allen married in 1687 Elizabeth Seyouche of Little Compton and settled there, but later moved to South Kingstown and died there in1739.

Governor Henry Bull of Newport on 27 Nov. 1688 deeded for love 28 acres in Little Compton to his grandchildren Christopher and Elizabeth Allen of that town (Austin, p. 266). From this it might appear that John Allen's wife (Elizabeth Bacon, married 14 Oct. 1650) may have been a daughter of Governor Henry Bull and the young widow of a Bacon.

[Note by Editor (Jacobus). It should, however, be noted that the only Allen named in the account of Governor Henry Bull's estate (Austin, p. 266) was Elizabeth Allen, who had a legacy of some livestock. Also that John Allen's daughter Elizabeth was already Mrs. Tompkins at the date of Bull's deed (1688) to Christopher and Elizabeth Allen, but that Christopher had married Elizabeth Sayouche in 1687, the previous year; and that Christopher and his wife were specifically the Allens who were living in Little Compton at that date. An alternate theory may therefore be suggested, that Elizabeth Seyouche was a granddaughter of Governor Henry Bull, and that Christopher Allen as her husband was included in the term "grandchildren" used in the deed in the sense of grandson-in-law.]"^[2]

1. ↑ Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. (Orig. 1887; Reprinted 1969 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing)
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2. ↑ Moriarty, G. Andrews, "Additions and Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island", in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
   30:121-122, Apr 1954.