♂Zachariah Allen

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

His name appears in the will his father made in December 1691, which divided Ralph Allen’s movable goods in equal shares among Zachariah, his brothers Joseph, Increase and Ebenezer, and his sister Patience. His brother John received two tables and two bedsteads. His birth date is not known, and the will gives no wife or place of residence for him.

His brother Ebenezer, who had settled at Dartmouth, remembered him in his own will, signed on 18 April 1725. It names “my Brother Zachariah Allen” and refers to something that Ebenezer’s son Ebenezer had “purchased of my Brother Zachariah Allen”. The inventory of Ebenezer’s estate, taken on 15 May 1725, lists among the sums owed to the dead man by bond one from a Zachariah Allen, most likely this brother. Nothing further is known of his marriage, children or death.