Person:Samuel Allen (14)

Samuel settled in the parish of East Bridgewater as early as 1660 andwas one of the original landed proprietors of the town and held manyofficies - town clerk: 1683 to 1702; member of the Legislature in 1693;deacon of the church, and was in many Indian battles.

1.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
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   SAMUEL, Braintree, perhaps as early as 1632, freem. 6 May 1635, by w. Ann, wh. d. 29 Sept. 1641, had Samuel, b. a. 1633.... His will of 2 Aug. 1669 as pro. 16 Sept. foll....SAMUEL, Bridgewater, s. of Samuel the first, m. a. 1658, Sarah, a. of George Partridge, had Samuel, b. 1660; Asahel, perhaps meant by the strange rec. Essiel, 1663; Mehitable, 1665; Sarah, 1667; Bethia, 1669; Nathaniel, 1672; Ebenezer, 1674; Josiah, 1677; Elisha, 1679; and Nehemiah, 1681; and d. 1703, when his age is made 71. He was careful town clk. prais. by Mitchell, and rep. 1693. Descend. are very many.