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Family: Ralph Allen / Esther Hester Swift (F310)

m. Bef 1646


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  • Father | Male
    Ralph Allen

    Born  Abt 1625  United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Abt Mar 1698/9  Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Married  Bef 1646  [1]  Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States  [1] Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  George Allen | F316 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Catherine | F316 Group Sheet 

    Mother | Female
    Esther Hester Swift

    Born  Abt 1625  Bocking, Essex, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Abt 1690   
    Buried     
    Father  William Swift | F311 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Joan | F311 Group Sheet 

    Child 1 | Female
    Mary Allen

    Born     
    Died  1675   
    Buried  18 Feb 1675/6  Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 2 | Male
    Joseph Allen

    Born  1642   
    Died  1704   
    Buried     

    Child 3 | Male
    + Jedidiah Allen

    Born  3 Jan 1646/7  Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  21 Jan 1712/3  Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  Elizabeth Howland | F308 
    Married  Abt 1668  Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 4 | Female
    Experience Allen

    Born  14 Mar 1651/2  Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Yes, date unknown   
    Buried     

    Child 5 | Male
    Epherim Allen

    Born  20 Mar 1656/7  Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Yes, date unknown   
    Buried     

  • Notes  Married:
    • Torrey, C.A. New England marriages prior to 1700. [CD] ALLEN, Ralph1 & 2/wf Esther [SWIFT]; by 1646(/7?); Sandwich

      "Memoirs." In NEHGR, v. 98, April 1944, p. [99]: John Kermott Allen ... He traced his ancestry from Ralph 1 Allen who came to Newport, RI, in 1638, probably from England, was found in Weymouth, Mass., in 1639, in Rehoboth, Mass., in 1643, and in Sandwich, Mass., after 1651. Ralph Allen was one of the early Quaker converts in Massachusetts, and as a consequence was persecuted, heavily fined, and imprisoned. The descent was through hon. Jedediah 2 of Sandwich, Mass., and Shrewsbury, NJ who married, in 1668, Elizabeth Howland of Duxbury, Mass....

      Austin, J.O. The Genealogical dictionary of Rhode Island. 1969. p. 73: EVANS (Richard, of Newport). ... Patience Allen, d. 1711, Dec. 4, [dau.] of Ralph & Esther (Swift) Allen.

      Crapo, H.H. Certain comeoverers. 1912. v. 2, p. 852: Ralph Allen, Dartmouth, b. +1600, d. 1698, s. of George Allen, Sandwich ... [m.] ----- ----- ...

      Noyes, C.P. Noyes-Gilman ancestry. 1907. p. 371: ... Esther (or Easter) [Swift], married in 1645, Ralph Allen, son of George Allen, of Sandwich.

      Cornell, J. Genealogy of the Cornell family. 1902. p. 394: Ralph Allen, m. Ester Swift ... Ralph 2 Allen, 15mo., 10, 1663, bought of Gov. William Bradford and his mother Alice Bradford, one-half share in Dartmouth for ten pounds sterling. (Plymouth, Vol. 5, p. 457.) Sarah Warren, widow of Nathaniel Warren of Plymouth, sold Ralph 2 Allen, 29, 4mo., 1672, one-half share in Dartmouth at "Barnes her Joy" Dartmouth, for thirty-three pounds sterling. (Plymouth Records, Vol. 3, p. 213.)

      Sanborn, M.L. Third Supplement to Torrey's New England marriages prior to 1700. c2003. p. 5: ALLEN, Ralph ( -c1659) & Esther 2 SWIFT (bp 1629- ); m c1646 Sandwich
    • Sandwich, Massachusetts

  • Sources 
    1. [S247] New England marriages prior to 1700, p. 12.
      Allen. Ralph & 2/wf Esther [Swift]; b 1646(7?); Sandwich [Torrey gives no source for his statement that Esther is a second wife; 1646 is the possible date of first born child--although other sources give earlier dates for some Allen children; and Sandwich is the place they were living at the birth of their first children, but no source citation is given for place of nuptials]