Simon Allen

Simon married Hannah Dixon Woody on 27 Jul 1833 in Orange County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Benjamin Franklin Allen was born on 19 Sep 1838 in Orange County, North Carolina; died on 20 Apr 1908 in New Castle, Henry, Indiana; was buried in Batson Cemetery, Millville, Henry, Indiana.

John married Dinah Stuart on 15 Jan 1807 in Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, Orange County, North Carolina. Dinah (daughter of John Stuart and Elizabeth Dixon) was born on 13 Aug 1789 in Orange County, North Carolina; died in 1862 in Chatham County, North Carolina; was buried in Cane Creek Monthly Meeting Cemetery, Snow Camp, Alamance, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Rachel Stout. Rachel (daughter of Peter Stout and Margaret Cypert) was born on 28 Feb 1761 in York County, Pennsylvania; died on 14 Dec 1840 in North Carolina; was buried in Cane Creek Monthly Meeting Cemetery, Snow Camp, Alamance, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1812, five years after the death of his first wife Elizabeth Dixon, he married Mary Stout (1775-1856), granddaughter of his son-in-law John Allen's maternal grandparents Peter Stout and Margaret Cypert. In other words, his second wife and his son-in-law John Allen were first cousins.

John married Elizabeth Dixon. Elizabeth (daughter of Simon Dixon and Elizabeth Allen) was born on 14 May 1771; died on 15 Dec 1807; was buried in Cane Creek Monthly Meeting Cemetery, Snow Camp, Alamance, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Phebe Scarlett on 12 Nov 1740 in London Grove, Chester, Pennsylvania. Phebe was born on 4 Jan 1723 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; died in 1815 in Randolph County, North Carolina; was buried in Holly Spring Friends Meeting Cemetery, Ramseur, Randolph, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Margaret Cypert. Margaret (daughter of Lawrence Cypert and Margaret) was born on 22 Aug 1716 in Germany; died on 31 Oct 1799 in Alamance County, North Carolina; was buried in Cane Creek Monthly Meeting Cemetery, Snow Camp, Alamance, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Elizabeth Pike on 17 May 1759 in Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, Orange County, North Carolina. Elizabeth (daughter of John Pike and Abigail Overman) was born on 19 Jan 1739 in Frederick County, Virginia; died on 31 Mar 1816 in North Carolina; was buried in Cane Creek Monthly Meeting Cemetery, Snow Camp, Alamance, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 12 Oct 1728, New Castle County, Delaware
• Alternate death: Apr 1781, Cane Creek, Orange County, North Carolina

Simon married Elizabeth Allen in 1751. Elizabeth (daughter of John Allen and Amy Cox) was born on 29 Apr 1728 in London Grove, Chester, Pennsylvania; died on 13 Oct 1793 in Snow Camp, Alamance, North Caroline; was buried in Cane Creek Monthly Meeting Cemetery, Snow Camp, Alamance, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1793, Cane Creek, Orange County, North Carolina

Notes:

From his Find a Grave page (citation details below):

The immigrant John Allen came to America from Ireland in 1713. Of Quaker faith, before leaving he received a Certificate of Removal to Friends in Pennsylvania, a certificate he presented to Newark Monthly Meeting (later Kennett MM) on 13 May 1713.

It is known that his father's name was also John, but his mother's name, any siblings he may have had, or details about his early life are not known. It is known that he was a bricklayer by trade.

About the time that John arrived, land was being opened for purchase and John bought 63 acres in London Grove township. Here he built and operated one of the earliest grist mills. In 1719, he purchased 200 acres next door in New Garden township.

On 14 Mar 1719, John requests a certificate to Center Friends Preparatory Meeting, in Delaware, to marry "Ami Cocks." On 4 Apr 1719 at Newark MM, they announce their marriage intentions and on 2 May 1719 they are reportedly married.

John and Amy had nine children: John III (so named here to differentiate him from his father, but in Indiana records he is often referred to as "John Jr"), Rebecca, Emey/Amy, Elizabeth, William, Joseph, Mary, Phebe and Benjamin.

In 1724, John was one of 42 taxable persons in London Grove, owing 8 shillings.

John Allen wrote his last will and testament on 7 December 1769.

Church records show that John Allen Jr., (as well as his son John Allen II, and his grandson, Thomas Allen) are all buried at London Grove FBG, but because of the Quaker tradition of unadorned grave markers, headstones have not been found.

John married Amy Cox on 2 May 1719 in Newark, New Castle, Delaware. Amy was born in 1698 in Newark, New Castle, Delaware; died on 13 Sep 1778 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; was buried in London Grove Friends Burial Ground, London Grove, Chester, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Margaret. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lawrence married Margaret. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his wife appear to have moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia, then to New Carolina, where their certificate was received at the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting on 3 May 1758. After this they removed to Georgia, where they died.

Robert married Martha Richardson about 1732. Martha (daughter of Isaac Richardson and Katherine Gandy) was born on 23 May 1717; died on 20 Sep 1793 in Wilkes County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 23 May 1719, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Notes:

"At the time of her marriage she was a member of Concord Monthly Meeting, and was disowned 9 Mo. 6. 1732 for marriage by a 'priest.'" [Gilbert Cope, citation details below]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 15 Jan 1774, Alamance County, North Carolina

John married Abigail Overman. Abigail (daughter of Ephraim Overman and Sarah Belman) was born on 19 Mar 1709 in Pasquotank County, North Carolina; died on 23 Feb 1781 in Deep River, Guilford, North Carolina; was buried in Muddy Creek Friends Cemetery, Kernersville, Forsyth, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His Find a Grave page claims he was born in Ireland, which is evidently wrong.

Thomas married Hannah Hadley on 25 Aug 1727 in New Castle County, Delaware. Hannah (daughter of Simon Hadley and Ruth) was born on 16 Nov 1710 in West Meath County, Ireland; died on 31 May 1783 in Cane Creek, Orange County, North Carolina; was buried in Cane Creek Monthly Meeting Cemetery, Snow Camp, Alamance, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 20 Apr 1715, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Notes:

He came to Pennsylvania as a servant boy. The first known reference to him is in the orphan court proceedings of 1697, which suggests that he was an orphan by that time. He may not have ever known the names of his parents.

Alexander married Mary Baily about 1708. Mary (daughter of Joel Baily and Ann Short) was born on 10 Nov 1688 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; died in Sep 1741 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; was buried in Bradford Friends Burying Ground, Marshallton, Chester, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Oct 1741

Notes:

According to Gilbert Cope (citation details below), he and his wife came to Pennsylvania from Nether Walton, Cheshire. But according to Futhey and Cope (citation details below), Richardson "appears to have come from Lancashire." He and his wife settled in Whiteland, Chester County, in or before 1714. He was not a member of the Friends but he appears to have had his children brought up in that faith.

Isaac married Katherine Gandy on 10 Mar 1707 in Frandley Meeting, Cheshire, England. Katherine (daughter of Richard Gandy and Ellen Dutton) was born on 29 Sep 1681 in Cheshire, England; was christened on 5 Oct 1681 in Cheshire, England; died in 1746 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Jean McGregory. Jean was born in 1680 in Orange County, North Carolina; died in 1752 in Orange County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 9 Feb 1732, Pasquotank County, North Carolina

Ephraim married Sarah Belman on 13 Mar 1708 in Pasquotank County, North Carolina. Sarah (daughter of John Belman and Sarah Wilson) was born on 28 Jun 1688 in Pasquotank County, North Carolina; died in 1786 in North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Mary Belle Lontz (citation details below), William Dixon "sailed from Downes, England, with Thomas Pierson on the 14th day of July 1676, and arrived in Great Wackacommacoe River in Maryland on the 9th day of September, 1676, aboard the ship Joseph and Benjamin, Matthew Pain, commander. Thomas Pierson later became the brother-in-law of William Dixon when, in 1690, he married William's sister Rose. William returned to Ireland from this first trip to the new colonies and there on the 5th mo. 4, 1683, as the Lurgan Monthly Meeting minutes state, married Isabelle Rea, both of the parish of Segoe, County Armagh, Ireland, in the house of Roger Webb, with Henry and Rose Dixon (his parents), Thomas Harlan, and Isabelle Logan as witnesses. After the death of Isabelle, he joined the Quaker emigration from ireland and came again to America, to William Penn's colony of Pennsylvnia, in that portion which is now Delaware, in 1688. Two years later, in 1690, he married Anne Gregg, second child and only daughter of William Gregg, who was also a member of the Quaker immigration into Pennsylvania, bringing with him his daughter Ann, born 1670, in Ireland. William Dixon was a weaver by trade and settled on Red Clay Creek, in Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware."

["Downes, England" presumably refers to this place.]

William married Ann Gregg about 1690. Ann (daughter of William Gregg) was born in 1670 in Ireland; died in 1729. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"In 1712, he moved from West Meath County, Ireland, and settled in Pennsylvania at Stenning (Styning) Manor, near New Garden where he owned a large tract of land, the greater part of which extended into New Castle County (now Delaware)." [Mary Belle Lontz, citation details below]

Simon married Ruth in 1697 in Ireland. Ruth died on 18 Dec 1751 in New Castle County, Delaware; was buried in New Garden, New Castle, Delaware. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]