George Allen (son of Ralph Allen)9 was born 1568 in Weymouth, England9, and died May 1648 in Sandwich, Massachusetts, USA9. He married Unk Spouse.
Notes for George Allen: Allen is the name of an ancient family in the county of Durham, England, and of another family in the county of Essex. Other spellings have been Alon, Alwyne, Alleine, Allyn and many others, but in New England as well as in England, the common spelling is Allen. The Allens of England bore arms, a shield sable, "Across potent, border engrailed or. "Crest: "A demi Lion argent holding a rudder gales, nooks, and nails or. " The American ancestor of the Sandwich, MA family was George Allen, born in England about 1568. He emigrated with his family from the old country in 1635, when the Puritans were escaping the tyranny and persecution of Archbishop Laud under King Charles I. He came in the company of one lhundred persons under the leadership of Rev. Joseph Hull. Supposedly, George Allen had been an Anabaptist. He and his family settled in Lynn, MA in 1637. He joined with Edmund Freeman and others in the purchase of the township of Sandwich.
When Sandwich was incorporated he was chosen deputy to the general court in Plymouth, first office in town, and served in that capacity for several years. The name of his first wife, being unknown, he married secondly, Catharine or Katherine Starkes. (after his death, she married John Collins). Some of George's sons preceded him to America and settled first in the vicinity of Boston, but after the purchase of Sandwich they all removed to that town and settled near the residence of their father. He died in Sandwich, May 2, 1648 aged about 80 years. Source: (vol 1, pp. 348-350 of Hudson-M9ohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1911).
More About George Allen: Date born 2: 1568, Weymouth, Dorset, England.9 Died 2: 02 May 1648, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.9
Children of George Allen and Unk Spouse are:
+Ralph Allen, b. 1615, Thurcaster, Leicester, England10, d. 18 Dec 1691, Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, USA10.
George Allen (b. 1568, d. May 1648)
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