Sidney David Allen

Sidney married Lucretia Winn before 1862. Lucretia died about 1862. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sidney married Margaret Ann Cooper on 31 Jul 1864. Margaret (daughter of Vinson Agrippa Cooper and Martha Kitrell) was born on 27 Sep 1841 in Mississippi; died on 18 Aug 1926 in Thayne, Lincoln, Wyoming. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: New Hampshire

Notes:

There is a blurry photo of a balding gentleman in a suit and tie that is widely shown on the web as being an image of this Andrew Lee Allen, despite the fact that the gentleman's clothing is more modern than anything worn before 1870, and the photo is clearly captioned "Andrew Allen, Born Aug 17, 1832". In other words, it's Andrew Lee Allen, Jr. (1832-1918). Sometimes we wonder if people are doing genealogy in their sleep.

From "Our Family" by Charles Hopkins Allen [Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen]:

"Andrew Lee Allen was born in Limerick, York Co., Maine November 24th 1791. He was the son of Elijah Allen, who was born in 1763 at Stratham, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire, and his first wife, Mehitable Hall, who was christened March 26th, 1769 at Rochester, Strafford Co., New Hampshire.

"His mother died June 25th, 1800 in Corinth, Orange Co., Vermont and his father was remarried October 21st, 1809 to Hannah, widow of George Perry. His father died October 19th, 1839 at Limerick, York Co., Maine.

"After his mother's death Andrew Lee Allen went to live with his maternal grandfather, Rev. Avery Hall, staying until he was 14 years of age. He worked at the blacksmith trade. Not being satisfied, he left home and never went back again. He went on shipboard to help protect the American vessels during the war known as the War of 1812. He left there and went into Canada, where he got into trouble with the British by drinking a toast at a barn-raising. The toast was, 'he wished that the Eagle of America would triumph over the crown of Great Britain,' for which he was arrested by the British. Making his escape he went into the state of New York, Cattaraugus Co., where he entered one hundred and sixty acres of land, and made himself a very nice home. He planned to settle down for life and he soon owned a large grove of sugar maple trees besides his prosperous farm.

"On December 11th, 1824, he married Clarinda Knapp, daughter of Calvin and Deborah (Hopkins) Knapp. Clarinda was a refined, educated woman who was highly skilled in the arts of fine painting, sewing, tailoring, ladies' leghorn hat designing, and homemaking. Her gentle upbringing had a great influence on the lives of those about her. She was a woman of true faith and was a Bible scholar.

"They remained in Burton, Cattaraugus Co., New York until they had seven children, namely: Elijah, Lydia, Saphronia, Charles, Andrew, James, and Sidney. They had not joined any religious society but were honest and upright with all men, waiting for something to come along that would give them better satisfaction than the religions of the day. [...]"

Andrew married Clarinda Knapp on 11 Dec 1824 in Cattaraugus, New Hampshire. Clarinda (daughter of Calvin Knapp and Deborah Hopkins) was born on 10 Aug 1802 in Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut; died on 7 Dec 1862 in Richmond, Cache, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: New York

Elijah married Mehitable Hall about 1788. Mehitable (daughter of Rev. Avery Hall and Hannah Chesley) was born on 22 Mar 1769 in New Hampshire; was christened on 26 Mar 1769 in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire; died on 25 Jun 1800 in Corinth, Orange, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Bef 26 Mar 1769, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire

Calvin married Deborah Hopkins on 12 Nov 1800. Deborah (daughter of Elijah Hopkins and Joanna Parish) was born about 1780; died on 6 Sep 1831. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Removed, with his father, to Wakefield, N.H. about 1770." ["Charles Allen and Some of His Descendants"]

His wife's identity is unknown; she was not "Content Stockbridge" as reported in Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen by Gerald R. Fuller. [See New England Historical and Genealogical Register 135:129, 1981.]

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• Alternate death: 5 Aug 1820, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire

Notes:

Graduated from Yale, 1756; ordained minister of the First Congregationalist Church at Rochester, New Hampshire, 15 Oct 1766. Dimissed 10 Apr 1775; removed to Wakefield, where he was a magistrate and justice of the peace.

Avery married Hannah Chesley about 1766. Hannah (daughter of James Chesley and Mehitable Waldron) was born about 1737 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire; died about 1770 in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Wentworth Genealogy, English and American shows Hannah Chesley as a daughter of James Chesley and Mehitable Waldron, and says that she "married (his first wife) Rev. Avery Hall, pastor of the church in Rochester, N. H., from 15 October 1766 to 10 April 1775; and had two children", but it gives her no birth, death, or marriage dates.

Heard-Hurd Genealogy calls her "Mary Chesley", but concurs with other sources in calling her husband Avery Hall and her daughter Mehitable Hall.

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• Alternate death: 1788, Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut
• Alternate death: 11 Oct 1821
• Alternate death: 15 Oct 1821

Notes:

Possibly a soldier in the Revolution. Claimed by various sources as a Minute Man, a private in Co. 9, 5th Conn. Regiment, and a major commanding the 11th Massachusetts.

His Find a Grave page calls him "Sergeant" and says "Moses Knapp stood with his neighbors on their Town Green on 18 July 1776 and swore an oath to uphold and defend their liberties and freedoms fourteen days after the Declaration of Independence had been signed. In 1775 he served in Capt. Nehemiah Beardsley's 9th Company of Col. David Waterbury's 5th Connecticut Regiment. In July 1779 he was part of an expedition to Fairfield and Norwalk for defense of this and the rest of the United States of America, serving in the 6th Alarm List of Col. Nehemiah Beardsley's 16th Connecticut Regiment."


Nicholas Knapp Genealogy (citation details below) says: "Moses was a Minute Man in the Rev. War. He was a Major and commanded the 11th Battalion, Mass. Continental Army, Nov., 1788? He was a private in Co. 9, 5th Conn. Regt."

Moses married Margaret Kasson on 8 Sep 1760. Margaret (daughter of James Kasson and Esther Duncan) was born on 3 Sep 1741 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut; died on 30 Aug 1815 in Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut; was buried in Old Bethlehem Cemetery, Bethlehem, Lichtfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Served in the Revolution from Connecticut.

Elijah married Joanna Parish. Joanna (daughter of Asa Parish and Mindwell Fuller) was born on 4 Jun 1755 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut; died in Cornwall, Litchfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shown as Joanna Hopkins of Cornwell in a list of legatees of Mindwell Parish.

Nicholas Knapp Genealogy calls the mother of Deborah Hopkins, and wife of Elijah Hopkins, "Luna _____".

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1711, Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Notes:

"Was a weaver; removed about 1770 to Wakefield, N.H. from Stratham." ["Charles Allen and Some of His Descendants", citation details below.] Died aged 98, at the home of his son Abner (1748-1835).

Samuel married Anne Clark about 1734. Anne (daughter of John Clark and Ann Smith) was born on 21 Mar 1714 in Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died on 5 Jun 1789 in Wakefield, Carroll, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 21 Mar 1715, Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Notes:

As "my daughter Ann Allen" she is a legatee of her father's will.

Notes:

Graduated from Yale, 1727. Ordained first minister of Meriden, Connecticut, 29 Oct 1729.

From Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen:

"He was a man of quite small stature, but possessed much dignity of manners united with the greatest affability, persuaded of the truth of Christianity, and deeply sensible of its importance, he was well able to defend it; his sermons were ably written and delivered with great fervor; his pastoral visits were frequent and conducted judiciously; he was humble, self denying, full of the love of souls, prayerful and zealous for the cause of Christ; during his ministry of 37 years in Meriden, 250 were added to the church; he possessed great firmness of character, and was a zealous advocate of civil and religious liberty; he published two sermons on the death of Rev. Isaac Stiles; two on faith; and one on the ordination of Rev. Matthew Morrison, of Berwick, Maine."

Theophilus married Hannah Avery on 22 May 1734. Hannah (daughter of James Avery and Mary Griswold) was born on 7 Apr 1712 in Groton, New London, Connecticut; died in Oct 1791 in Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 18 May 1706, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire

James married Mehitable Waldron about 1727. Mehitable (daughter of John Waldron and Mary Ham) was born about 1708 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire; died on 21 Aug 1776. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Moses Knapp and Jemima Mead were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Caleb Knapp and Hannah Smith.

Ancestors of the political Romney family:

Moses Knapp (1709-1787) = Jemima Mead (1708-1766)
Abraham Knapp (1737-1836) = Martha Comstock (?-?)
Sarah Knapp (1757-1807) = Charles Robison (1746-1826)
Charles Robison (1785-1840) = Jerusha Rebecca Kellogg (1785-1836)
Lewis Seth Robison (1816-1883) = Clarissa Minerva Duzette (1822-1891)
Charles Edward Robison (1845-1883) = Rosetta Mary Berry (1843-1918)
Alma Luella Robison (1882-1938) = Harold Arundel LaFount (1880-1952)
Lenore LaFount (1908-1998) = George Wilcken Romney (1907-1995)
Willard Mitt Romney (1947- )

Moses married Jemima Mead on 25 Nov 1731. Jemima (daughter of Ebenezer Mead and Sarah Knapp) was born about 1708 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; died before 1766 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

New England Families Genealogical and Memorial (citation details below) calls her "Jemima Weed"; this is probably due to the Rev. Elijah B. Huntington's mistranscription in his 6 Apr 1797 Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Stamford Families.

Although Nicholas Knapp Genealogy doesn't, in its entry for Sarah Knapp, list Jemima among her children with Ebenezer Mead, in its entry for Moses Knapp it calls Jemimah Mead "dau. of Ebenezer Mead and Sarah (Knapp)." Meanwhile, Spencer P. Mead's History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield County does in fact list Jemima as a daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah, and records her marriage to Moses Knapp. So Jemima and Moses were first cousins, both grandchildren of Caleb Knapp and Hannah Smith.

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• Alternate birth: Nov 1724
• Alternate death: 5 Jul 1795

Notes:

Emigrated, with his parents and six brothers, from Belfast in 1722.

James married Esther Duncan on 14 Oct 1740. Esther (daughter of George Duncan and Margaret Cross) was born in 1720 in Ireland; died on 26 Sep 1757 in New Haven County, Connecticut; was buried in White Oak Cemetery, Southbury, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1700

Sylvanus married Ruth Berry on 23 Nov 1738 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Ruth (daughter of Judah Berry and Rebecca Hamlin) was born on 19 Mar 1721 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was christened on 19 May 1723; died before 21 Nov 1769. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1790

Notes:

Also spelled Parrish.

Asa married Mindwell Fuller on 23 Nov 1749 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut. Mindwell (daughter of Joseph Fuller and Lydia Day) was born about 1730 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut; died on 24 Oct 1780 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1730, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut

Jude married Deborah Locke before 1710. Deborah (daughter of John Locke and Elizabeth) died after 17 Sep 1753. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called by the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (citation details below) a possible daughter of John Locke (~1653->1733). John Locke had a known son named Jethro, and Deborah Locke named a son Jethro.

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• Alternate death: 3 Jun 1753

John married Ann Smith. Ann (daughter of Nicholas Smith and Mary Gordon) died after 20 Jul 1750. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Love Royce on 2 May 1704 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. Love (daughter of Nathaniel Royce and Sarah Lathrop) was born on 27 Jul 1687. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 29 Jul 1687, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut

Notes:

History of Wallingford mistakenly gives her as "Lois Royce."

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• Alternate death: 18 Sep 1754, Groton, New London, Connecticut

James married Mary Griswold in 1696 in New London, New London, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Deacon John Griswold and Mary Bemis) was born on 1 Feb 1673 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 26 Nov 1750 in Groton, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Feb 1673, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
• Alternate birth: Feb 1674

Notes:

Killed in an ambush by native Americans.

James married Tamsen Wentworth on 29 Dec 1704 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire. Tamsen (daughter of Ezekiel Wentworth and Elizabeth) was born in 1687 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire; died on 30 Dec 1753 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire; was buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Tamsen, widow of James Chesley, and daughter of Deacon Ezekiel Wentworth." [Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, citation details below.]

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• Alternate death: Aft 12 May 1740, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire

John married Mary Ham on 29 Aug 1698. Mary (daughter of John Ham and Mary Heard) was born on 2 Oct 1668 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire; died after 1 Oct 1742. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen:

"John Waldron's two oldest daus. Sarah and Bridget, ages 9 and 7, were killed by Indians. They were turning out the calves into a pasture near the house, when nine Indians suddenly appeared, seized them and cut off their heads directly before the door, with an axe upon a log, and in sight of their mother in the house, who dared not give any alarm. They carried off the heads with them, but [the heads] were found by their father some weeks afterwards in some bushes, where the Indians had thrown them after taking their scalps; and he buried them with their bodies."

Mehitable Waldron was John and Mary Waldron's child immediately following Sarah and Bridget.

Notes:

Appointed Ensign, May 1707; Lieutenant, Oct 1710; Captain, Oct 1716, by the Connecticut General Assembly. He was a member of the Assembly in 1716.

Sometime in the early 1890s, while repairing a drain on the estate of a Dr. Trowbridge, workmen discovered a gravestone that was being used as a drain cover, upon which was written "Here lies interred, the body of Capt. John Knapp who departed this life the 5th day of April, 1749, aged 85 years."

John married Hannah Ferris on 10 Jun 1692 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Peter Ferris and Elizabeth Reynolds) was born in 1666 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 27 Sep 1724 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 10 Sep 1724

Notes:

He was a tavern-keeper.

Ebenezer married Sarah Knapp in 1691 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of Caleb Knapp and Hannah Smith) was born in 1670 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died in 1728 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He emigrated, with his wife and seven sons including James, from Belfast to Boston, 1722. He was a maker of spinning-wheels.

From Nicholas Knapp Genealogy, about the Kassons: "They called themselves Scotch-Irish. They were members of the Presbyterian Church from its foundation in Oct., 1723. Adam was a deacon Aug. 4, 1731."

His Find a Grave page says that he was born in Carrickfergus, county Antrim, a son of John Kasson and Mary Ruthven, but no proof is offered for this claim.

Deacon married Jane Hall. Jane was born in 1682; died on 31 Mar 1767 in Voluntown, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Sterling, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emigrated, with her husband and seven sons, from Belfast, 1722. She is said to have been of English descent.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1680, Ireland

George married Margaret Cross. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 16 Jan 1678, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Notes:

After the 1719 death of his wife Hannah Mayo, he married another woman also named Hannah Mayo. His only child by the second Hannah Mayo was Samuel Hopkins, born 14 Mar 1721, who presumably died young as he is unmentioned in Judah's will.

Judah married Hannah Mayo on 14 Apr 1702 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Samuel Mayo and (Unknown first wife of Samuel Mayo)) was born in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 5 Jul 1719 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

For proof of her parentage, see the entry for her father Samuel Mayo. Additionally, the Stephen Hopkins Mayflower Families Through Five Generations book calls her "a descendant of Pilgrim William Brewster."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1774

Judah married Rebecca Hamlin on 11 Aug 1720. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gerald R. Fuller claims her as a daughter of Eleazar Hamlin and Lydia Sears, who are already ancestral to TNH via their son Benjamin. This runs up against the problem that H. Franklin Andrews's well-documented 1902 The Hamlin Genealogy lists, as the only children of Eleazar Hamlin and Lydia Sears, Benjamin (b. 1692), Lydia (b. 1694), Mary (b. 1696), and Elisha (b. 1698).

Fuller's argument consists of pointing out that after Eleazar Hamlin died in 1698, Lydia Sears married Thomas Snow in 1706 and they named their first child Lydia in 1707, which, Fuller claims, they wouldn't have done if Lydia Sears already had a daughter named Lydia by her first marriage, to which we reply, have you ever done any genealogy? Fuller continues: "Therefore the Hamlin Genealogy made a mistake in listing the first Lydia and it should have been Rebecca, who md. 11 May 1720 Judah Berry. The first Lydia never existed." To say that this is unconvincing is to understate the case. The History of Hardwick, Massachusetts and the Stephen Hopkins "silver book" both call Judah Berry's second wife Rebecca Hamlin, so we're keeping the surname, but we have found no evidence of her specific parentage.

William married Jerusha Smith on 8 Nov 1716 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut. Jerusha (daughter of John Smith and Susanna) was born on 8 May 1695 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 23 Mar 1727 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"In 1740 he removed to Kent, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was one of the founders of the church at Kent, April 29, 1741; his wife joined by letter May 10, 1741. He was a deacon in the church, and next to the minister the foremost man of the town. He owned extensive tracts of land at Kent." [Homer W. Brainard, citation details below]

The inscription on his grave at North Kent reads:

In Memory of Deacon
Joseph Fuller who
died July ye 19th 1775
aged 75.

Joseph married Lydia Day on 22 Dec 1722 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut. Lydia (daughter of John Day and Grace Spencer) was born on 11 Apr 1698 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 2 Nov 1763 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut; was buried in North Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The inscription on her grave at North Kent reads:

In memory of
Mrs. Lydia wife
of Deacon Joseph Fuller died Nov
ye 2d 1763 in ye 66
year of her age.