Person:John Allen (81)

Capt. John Allen, d. Mar. 27, 1675.

[These documents are old and hard to read, and indicated parts could not be read with certainty, or at all]

28 Apr 1675: "Inventory of the Estate of Cap't John Allen Late of Charlestowne deceased as it was taken & apprized April 28th 1675" by ???, Joshua Tidd[?], John Cutler.
"16 . 4. 75" [16 Jun 1675]: "Administration of this estate granted to Mrs Sarah Allen the relict widow of said Jn'o allen dec'ed & to this Inventory shee gave her oath ye day & year abovesd."

Will of "John Allen Aged [??] seaven years or ther About", dated "first daye of the twelfe Monte Called ffebruary one thousand six hundred seaventy two" [1 Feb 1672/73], mentions "my Dearly beloved wife Sarah Allen my only & Sole Executor ... advice of Capt Thomas Lake and Capt Lawrance Hammond ... my four children (viz) Samuell and Thomas, Elizabeth Ary & Rebecka Joslin" [Note: Rebecca's surname is very hard to read, but resembles "Joslin". However, church records say Rebecca was not yet married?], also some miscellaneous bequests for the ministers, widows and poor of Charlestown.

ALLEN, JOHN, Charlestown, came, perhaps, in the Abigail, 1635, aged 30, with w. Ann, 30, from some part of Kent, join. the ch. 22 May 1641, and was adm. freem. 2 June next; by w. Sarah had John, b. 16 Oct. 1640; bapt. 30 May foll.; Sarah, b. 11 Aug. 1642, d. at. 4 mos.; Mary, 6 Feb. 1644; and perhaps others, certain. Rebecca bef. Samuel 29 Nov. 1656; and Sarah, again, 11 May 1659, d. at 2 mos. He was of ar. col. 1639, and in 1657, the richest man in the town, a capt. and rep. 1668, and d. 27 Mar. 1675. His d. Mary m. Jonathan Rainsford, and next Joshua Hobart. See Budington, 249. By Sewall he is call. br. of Rev. Thomas, if such be the mean. of the interleav. Almanac, giv. in Geneal. Reg. VII. 206.

[The reference to Buddington probably refers to Source:Budington, William Ives. History of the First Church, Charlestown : In Nine Lectures, with Notes, p. 249: Admissions to Full Communion: 1668. Mar. 29. "Mrs Mary Ransford (Capt. Allen's daughter)". Note that Mary was not mentioned in her father's will, and Source:NEHGR, p. 139:305 (publ. 1985) says Jonathan Raynsford m. Mary Sunderland, who m. (2) Joshua Hobart, and such a marriage is recorded in Boston (p. 57). Further Jonathan and Mary had a daughter Dorothy, which was Mary Sunderland's mother's name. So Savage seems to be wrong about the marriage of daughter Mary. The reference to the Almanac refers to a chronology published in NEHGR that was compiled from some almanacs belonging to Judge Sewall, the pertinent entry being "March 29. 2. Now a [ ] Capt. Alli [ ] of Charl [ ] dyes. T [ ] frater."]

[Note: Source:Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. 1, p. 39, says Savage misidentified this John Allen as the passenger on the Abigail. Anderson says the passenger on the Abigail was actually the man Savage calls "Allen, John, Plymouth 1633, was perhaps of Scituate, 1646, ... d. 1662 ...wid. Ann and s. John ...". Citing Wyman, Anderson says Capt. John Allen doesn't show up in Charlestown until 1639 and he already had a wife Sarah at that time.]