Capt. Edward Allen, born about 1735, came from Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, and settled in Salem, Mass., in 1757. He was a mariner, and subsequently a merchant. He married first, Ruth (Hodges), widow of Israel Gardner, of Salem, Jan. 18, 1759. She died in October, 1774, being buried the tenth. He married, second, Margaret Lockhart of North Carolina in 1778; and died July 27, 1803, aged sixty-eight. She survived him, and died Aug. 13, 1808, of intermittent fever, aged fifty-four."
