Sunday, September 13, 2015

Peter Allen (cir 1761-cir 1840) one of my 3 x great grandfathers

Peter Allen, one of my 3 x great grandfathers was born cir 1761 in New York. Died cir 1840, New Brunswick, Canada.

He married Dorcas [Gallup/Gallop], cir 1793, probably in York County, New Brunswick.

 1. Edward Kipp
 2. Phyllis Margaret Link (b Nov. 19, 1906) - Carievale, Saskatchewan, Canada (m Lorne Kipp)
 3. Margaret Evelyn Allen (b Nov. 3, 1880) - McLean Twp., Muskoka, Ontario Canada (m Horace Lorenzo Link)
 4. James C Allen (b Dec. 24, 1832) - Millstream, Studholm, Kings Co., New Brunswick (m Hannah Catherine Parlee)
 5. Isaac Allen (b July 20, 1794) - Millstream, Studholm, Kings Co., New Brunswick (m Rebecca Crouse)
*6. Peter Allen (b cir 1761) - New York (m Dorcus [Gallup/Gallop])
 7. John (Jan) Allen (b Jan. 1727) - Hackensack, Bergen Co., New York (m Rachel Van Buskirk)
 8. John Allen (b March 1709) - New York, New York (m Martie Ackerman)
 9. Jan (John) Allen [Ellin] (b Feb. 19, 1682) - Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut (m Johanna Anna Haldron)
10. Gideon Allen (b cir 1635) - Sandwich, Barnstable Co., Massachuesetts (m Sarah Prudden)
11. George Allen (b Cir 1585) - England (m Katherine Starke)

Sources:

James C Allen (m Hannah Catherine Parlee July 17, 1856)
Born York Co., NB, Can.  Since he was listed on the 1851 Census for Middlesex Co., Canada West, he must have moved to Ontario from New Brunswick before or about 1851. 
After marriage they moved to Adelaide Twp., Middlesex Co., near London, Ontario where 8 of their children were born.
They then moved to Baysville, McLean Twp., Lot 3 Con. 7, Muskoka District in 1872. They were some of the earliest settlers in the area. Religion: Disciple of Christ.

Crouse Family History. The Descendants of Philip and Sarah Crouse. 2nd ed., by Roguer Crouse. 2000 and 2007.

Township Papers, Archives of Ontario. McLean Township.  James Allen signed declarations dated Sept. 6, 1872 in the

District of Muskoka, saying he had not received other free grants of land.  The document makes his date of location on Con. 8 Lot 2 of McLean Township as Sept. 26, 1872.

Guide Book & Atlas of Muskoka and Parry Sound District, H.R Page & Co., Toronto, ON: 1879. Jas. Allen lot 2 conc 8 McLean Twp.

1851 Census of Canada. Canada West. Middlesex 23. Dorchester North 220. P. 81. LAC mf C-11738.
1861 Census of Canada. Canada West. Middlesex. Adelaide Twp. St. George Ward. p. 21. LAC mf C-1049.
1871 Census of Canada. Ontario. North Middlesex 8. Adelaide Twp A-2. P. 1.  LAC mf C-9902.
1881 Census of Canada. Ontario. Muskoka 131. Ridout & McLean  K. p. 15/16. LAC mf C-13243.
1891 Census of Canada. Ontario. Ontario North 100 (Muskoka). Twp. of  McLean (g). p. 20.   LAC mf T-6357.

Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Registrations of Deaths, 1869-1932. Muskoka District. Lot 3 Con 7 McLean. March 30, 1899. Lumberman. MS935_93. Reg. # 017280. New Brunswick. Disciple. Epileptic Fit.

Baysville Public Cemetery, Baysville, McLean Twp, Muskoka District. Apparently there was a wooden cross marker which had disintegrated by 1985. The tin name plaque for J. Allen is posted on a marquee in the cemetery. Plots for Jos. Allen N 45.14627  W -79.11439, next to the front fence to the right of the cemetery gate.

Isaac Allen (m Rebecca Crouse April 8, 1816)
Crouse Family History. The Descendants of Philip and Sarah Crouse. 2nd ed., by Roguer Crouse. 2000 and 2007.

Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946.
New Brunswick. Isaac Allen and Rebecca Crouse both of the Parish of Queensbury were married by License with ---- this 8th day of April in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred & Sixteen by me David McGibbon Justice Peace.
This Marriage was Solemnized between us Isaac Allen and Rebeka Crouse In the presence of Ann McGibbon and Susan McGibbon. Rec'd & Regd 15 May 1816.

"New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950," index and images, FamilySearch

(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QVBX-YRHV : accessed 11 March 2015), Isaac Allan and Rebecca Crowse, 09 Apr 1816; citing , , New Brunswick, Canada, p. 59, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Fredericton; FHL microfilm 846,412.

Peter Allen (m Dorcas Gallup/Gallop cir 1793)
Loyalist
New Brunswick Petition:
To the Honorable the Speaker and to the Honorable the Members of the House of Assembly
The Petition of Peter Allen of the Parish of Douglas in the County of York.
Humbly Sheweth
That he was a Private Soldier in the 4th Battn of the New Jersey Volunteers Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Buskirk, that he served in the said Regt seven years, was wounded in an engagement at a place called "Burnt Meadows" on Staten Island.
That he came to the Province of New Brunswick in 1783, lost his discharge in a house that was consummed by fire, that he never received any land from the Crown, he is now in the Seventy-sixth year of his age, in very indigent circumstances, and unable to labour as he was want to do.
That he humbly prays your Honorable House to take his case into consideration and after your accustomed liberality allow him such relief in the  province  as your Honoarable House may deem much.
And as in duty bound will pray.
Douglas 5th Janry 1838    Peter Allen (his mark)

His petition was accepted.
He and his wife appear on several relief lists:
Peter Allen June 1839  aged 79
Dorcas Allen June 1842 aged 69
Peter Allen Jan 1840  recd 10 pounds
Peter Allen Jan 1841  recd 10 pounds
Dorcas Allen Jan 1844 recd 10 pounds

Settled at Burton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Van Buskirk. A Legacy from New Amsterdam, by Irene English Shoemaker.  A Genealogy of the Descendants of Lauren

Andriessen and Jannetje Jans married;  New Amsterdam 12 December 1658 in Two Volumes. Argentine, 1990.

New Brunswick Provincial Archives:  Records of Old Revolutionary Soldiers and their Widows.
Available as digital images on their web site:  http://archives.gnb.ca
Search under Peter and Dorcas Allen.

RS686 : Index to New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784 - 1997
Name    ALLEN, Peter
Volume    B
Page    249
Grant number    135
Place    Burton Parish
County    Sunbury
Date    21/01/1788
Accompanying plan    No
Acres    270
Microfilm    F16302
Comments    --

Other names on this grant: (7)
ALLEN, John        368  acres
ALLEN, Lawrence        216  acres
ALLEN, Thomas        216  acres
BREWER, Agnes (widow)        234  acres
BREWER, Ralph        368  acres
DAY, Peter        0  acres
FRIE, William *       165  acres

John (Jan) Allen (m Rachel Van Buskirk Oct. 26, 1749)
Loyalist
He was a Loyalist and settled in New Brunswick, Canada, following the Revolution.  His four sons served with the British, three of them in the New Jersey Volunteers.

Van Buskirk. A Legacy from New Amsterdam, by Irene English Shoemaker.  A Genealogy of the Descendants of Lauren Andriessen and Jannetje Jans married;  New Amsterdam 12 December 1658 in Two Volumes. Argentine, 1990.

Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Page 18; 22.

Genealogy of the Ackerman Family, compiled by Kathlyne Knickerbacker Viele, revised and typed by Ellen H. Smith, 1922.

John Allen [Ellen or Ellin] (m Martie Ackerman March 21, 1725)
Genealogy of the Ackerman Family, compiled by Kathlyne Knickerbacker Viele, revised and typed by Ellen H. Smith, 1922.

Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol II.
Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York.
New York, 1901. Reprinted 1968.
P. 337 1709 30 Mar Jan Ellin & Annetje Haldron parents, Jan child, witnesses Jan Haldron, Abraham Brajor, Cornelia Haldron. Minister Gualterus du Bois.

A Genealogical Dictionary of New Jersey, Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Vol. 18, p. 22. [Allen]

Honeyman, A. Van Doren (editor). Archives of the State of New Jersey. First Series Vol. XXXII Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey., Vol III of Calendar of New Jersey Wills and Administrations, etc.,

1751-1760. Published: Somerville, NJ, The Unionist Gazette Association, Printers, 1924.
Abstract of will: 1754, May 6. Alling, John, of Newwark. Int. Martha, widow, administratrix. Lib. F, p. 230.

Jan (John) Allen [Ellen or Ellin] (m Johanna Anna Haldron June 28, 1705)
Admitted Freemen in New York on May 27, 1702. Feltmaker.

Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. 1. Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed

Dutch Church, New York. New York. (Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York. Marriages from 11 December, 1639 to 16 August, 1801. Edited, with an Introduction by Samuel S. Purple. M.D.). 1890.
Marriages in the Reformed Dutch Church of New York. 1639-1801. P. 103
1705 den 18 Juny  Johan Ellin, j.m. Van Milfort, met Anna Haldrin, j.d. Van N. Haarlem; den 28 do.

New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol. 12, Jan. 1881. Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. P. 43.

Web site of Richard Deprel on his unconnected Holdron families:  http://www.duprel.com/ucholdren.html

Revised History of Harlem (City of New York) its Origin and Early Annals. James Riker. 1904. P. 558.

Genealogical Dictionary of New Jersey. Charles C Gardner. P. 21-22.

New Harlem Register, by Henry P Toler. 1903.

Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Vol. 18, p. 21. [Allen]

Gideon Allen (m Sarah Prudden by 1671)
Third Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. P. 5. Allen, Gideon & Sarah Brudden, dau. of Peter; m by 1671 [GM 1:29].

Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre 1870 - Barbour Collection. Milford Vital Records.

Find A Grave  www.findagrave.com. Milford Cemetery, Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut. Memorial # 74685564.

George Allen (m Katherine Starke perhaps Nov. 5, 1624)
Sailed from Weymouth, England in Rev. Joseph Hull's company and arrived in Boston, MA May 6, 1635 and settled in Weymouth, MA in 1636. They later removed to Sandwich in 1638. Freeman of Plymouth Colony March 5, 1638/9. Will undated, proved June 7, 1649. Inventory taken September 22, 1648.

The Great Migration Immigrants to New England, 1634-35. Vol.1, A-B. PP. 27-35.
Sketch for George Allen.

Immigrant Ancestors. A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750. Edited by Frederick Adams Virkus. GPC. Baltimore. 1986.

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