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♀Sarah (surname unknown)

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Also recorded as Sarah Allen.

Sarah (fl. 1673–1675) was the wife and widow of the sea captain John Allen (died 1675) of Charlestown in the Massachusetts Bay Colony^W, and the executrix of his estate. She was the eighth great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through her daughter Rebecca Allen. Her maiden name is not known, and no record of her birth or of her parents has been found. Her husband’s will, made on 1 February 1672/73, left bequests to his wife Sarah and to his children Samuel, Thomas, Elizabeth and Rebecca, and after his death on 27 March 1675 the county’s probate register named Sarah Allen as executrix. A compiled family genealogy calls Rebecca the daughter of his second wife, Sarah, while a history of Charlestown families published in 1879 names three wives in turn, Sarah, Mary and Sarah, and the records do not settle which of the two Sarahs was Rebecca’s mother. A Goodrich genealogy of 1889 names Rebecca’s mother as Ann, a name the Charlestown records do not give to any of his wives. The Charlestown history lists among the dealings in her estate a sale of 1707, when Rebecca and her husband John Goodrich, as heirs of John Allen, sold a house and about half an acre near the Charlestown ferry. No record of her death has been found, and no probate for a Sarah Allen of Charlestown appears in the Middlesex County probate index of that period; the records do not show whether she married again. A John and Sarah Allen whose daughter Rebecca was born on 20 May 1664, in a Middlesex County record printed with the Sudbury vital records, were very likely another couple.

Family time line

◉ Sarah (surname unknown)

◉ John Allen –1675 ⚖⚔

No marriage recorded

○ Samuel Allen 1656–

◉ Rebecca Allen bef 1657–

○ Sarah Allen 1659–

○ Elizabeth Allen

Recorded events

Event	When	Where	Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth		Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States	from a compiled source

Sources

U.S., Family History Books — Birth, name
Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 — name
Massachusetts, U.S., Vital Records, 1640-1849 — name
North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 — name
Bassette, Buell Burdett. One Bassett Family in America (1926) - 'The Allen Family', archive.org onebassettfamily00bass — family with John Allen

Line of descent

Descendants

Samuel Allen 1656–
Rebecca Allen bef 1657–
1. Sarah Goodrich 1679–1719 ⚭
2. Rebecca Goodrich 1680–1703
3. Mary Goodrich 1682–
  1. Rebecca Curtis 1705–
  2. Mercy Curtis 1707–1757
    1. Oliver Warner 1729–1814
  3. Sibbel Curtis 1708–
    1. Martin North 1734–1806
    2. Sibyl North 1736–1807
  4. Hannah Curtis 1709–
    1. Samuel Churchill 1733–1790
  5. Zebulon Curtis 1710/1711–1798 ⚔
    1. Elizabeth Curtis 1737–1801
    2. Thomas Curtis 1739–1776 ⚔
    3. Marcy Freeman Curtis 1740–
    4. Job Curtis 1745–1807
    5. John Curtis 1748–bef 1790
    6. Lydia Curtis 1751–1820
  6. Elnathan Curtis Sr. 1713–
  7. Thomas Curtis 1715–1726 ✧
  8. Mary Curtis 1716–1795
  9. Prudence Curtis 1718–
  10. Lydia Curtis 1721–
    1. Keziah Woodruff 1742–1812
  11. Lois Curtis 1726–
  12. Marcy Curtis 1727–
4. Samuel Goodrich 1684–1706
5. Abigail Goodrich 1686–
  1. Joseph Curtis 1707–
  2. Allen Curtis 1708–
    1. Martin Curtis 1725–
    2. Solomon Curtis 1729–
    3. Ether Curtis 1732–1794
    4. Chloe Curtis 1738–
    5. Medad Curtis 1740–
    6. Ebenezer Curtis 1741–1742 ✧
    7. John Curtis 1742–
    8. Anna Curtis 1748–
    9. Seth Curtis
    10. Ruth Curtis
    11. Elisha Curtis
  3. Anne Curtis 1710–1790
    1. John Church 1736–1811
    2. Joanna Church 1740–1795
  4. Abigail Curtis 1714–
  5. David Curtis 1716–1776
  6. Eunice Curtis
  7. Sarah Curtis
6. John Goodrich 1688–1751
7. Allyn Goodrich 1690–1764 ⚭
  1. Elisha Goodrich 1712–1803
    1. Elisha Goodrich 1736–1776
  2. Abigail Goodrich 1714–1809
    1. Mary Hart 1744–1834
8. Ann Goodrich 1692–
9. Jacob Goodrich 1694–bef 1746
  1. Hannah Goodrich 1719–
  2. Rebecca Goodrich 1721–
  3. Elijah Goodrich 1724–
    1. Uriah Goodrich 1767–1845
  4. Ruth Goodrich 1727–
  5. Stephen Goodrich 1731–
  6. Sarah Goodrich 1733–
Sarah Allen 1659–
Elizabeth Allen