Re: Allen's of Kittery,Maine
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Francis and Robert Allen,Kittery,Maine,1600's
shirley gettel 1/29/02
I'm not related but I have a good book "A Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire".It says this about your family:
Robert ALLEN, Kittery, 1666.A descendant wrote about 1830 that two brothers came from England, one settling in Kittery and the other further south.He married Hannah White, daughter of John White and lived on her land.On his death, administration of his estate was granted to son, Francis on April 21, 1701.Known children:
(1.)Francis, a Quaker, bought out Wm. Thompson's heirs in 1708.Wife Hannah Jenkins, dau. of Jabez Jenkins and Hannah Curtis.In 1708 Wm. Frye called him "cousin".Francis left a will, dated March 8, 1744-5 and proved on October 17, 1749.He had 11 children.
(2.)Robert, born about 1680.Living in 1722.Married in 1700 to Sarah Litten, widow of John Lary, daughter of George and Sarah Litten.He had 1 child.
(3.)Elizabeth, married Sept. 23, 1700 to John Cole.
(4.)Anna, married Sept. 10, 1702 to Nathaniel Fernald.
JOHN WHITE, of Kittery before 1640.One of the Shapleigh servants.Age 70 on May 5, 1679 when he testified about Shapleigh matters in court.He sold a Sturgeon Creek house to Anthony Emery in 1648.In 1650 a house was to be built for him by Mr. Shapleigh out of Province funds.John was referred to as "neighbor John White" in Abraham Conley's will of 1674.With wife, Lucy, on Dec. 2, 1667 and May 9, 1670 he deeded to George Lidden his Crooked Lane grant of 1654.In November 1678, with no mention of wife or support, deeded all after his death to the Allens, with reversion to their oldest surviving son.Known children:
(1.)a daughter who married William Thompson.
(2.)Hannah, married Robert Allen.
(3.)Sarah, married Adrian Frye.
(4.)Mary, accused in court in 1665 of having an illegitimate child.At the same court session Dr. Walter Rhodes was cited for living in a suspicious manner in John White's house in Kittery.He left Kittery and was in Providence in 1668; was killed by Mohawk Indians in the wilds of central New York in 1676.
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Re: Allen's of Kittery,Maine
shirley gettel 1/30/02