♂Joseph Allen

Joseph Allen (born about 1642) was a son of Ralph Allen (1615–1698) and Susanna, of Sandwich in Plymouth Colony^W. He was the sixth great-grand-uncle of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), the brother of Ebenezer Allen (1650–1725), Roger’s sixth great-grandfather.

Early life

Robert Charles Anderson’s compiled genealogy of the Great Migration calls him the eldest certain child of the marriage and puts his birth at about 1642. He had brothers John, Increase, Ebenezer and Zachariah, and sisters Patience and Mary; a compiled genealogy gives Mary’s burial at Sandwich on 18 April 1675.

Marriage and family

By the time his father made his will, in December 1691, Joseph had children of his own. The will divided Ralph Allen’s movable goods in equal shares among Joseph, Increase, Ebenezer, Zachariah and Patience, while John received two tables and two bedsteads. Half of Joseph’s share was to go to his daughter Abigail. Ralph Allen had already given Patience a quarter of the land he had bought from Constant Southworth, and he left the rest of it to Joseph’s eldest son, also named Joseph.

The will names no wife for Joseph and no place where he lived. His marriage, the names of his other children and the date of his death are not known.