♀Elizabeth Allen

Elizabeth Allen was a daughter of Elisha Allen (1722–1804) and Elizabeth Fish (1736–1814). She was the third great-grand-aunt of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), the sister of Waite Allen (1766–1850), Roger’s third great-grandmother.

Frank Doherty’s Settlers of the Beekman Patent (1993), a compiled genealogy, lists her among the twelve children that it gives to a couple who moved from Dutchess County to Cambridge, New York, and gives her marriage: “m. Philip Hoag”. No date or place for the marriage is recorded, and no children are on record for the couple. Roger’s line to Elisha and Elizabeth runs through their daughter Waite, not through her.

Notes

Her parents’ wills

Her father’s will, signed on 29 September 1801 and proved at Salem on 10 June 1802, names his wife Elizabeth as executrix and ten of the twelve children; in the surviving text Elizabeth and her brother David are not among them. Doherty lists both independently of the will, so the absence is left standing and is not taken as evidence against either. The records do not explain it.

The index to her mother’s will, signed on 24 December 1812 and proved on 26 March 1814, names sons John, Laban and Philip and daughters Mary Weed, Waite Shearman, Hannah Macomber and Amia Shearman. The index writes Laban as “Laben”. No Hoag appears in it. Doherty’s remark that “the will of Elizabeth Allen” names a daughter Anne who married a Sherman appears to refer to this will, her mother’s.