Notes for William Allen
	!Essex Institute Historical Collections; Genealogy of the Allen Family if Ma.,
!From the Earliest Settlement to the Year 1886, page 223-225.
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	 William ALLEN (1516), born 1602, Manchester, , , England, died 10
 May 1678, Manchester, Essex, MA. SOURCE NOTES: !AF Directory of
 the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 by Frank R.
 Holmes, Am. Historical Soc., Inc. NY, 1923 Birth source. Made
 freeman at Salem, Mass in 1630; previous to this had resided at
 Gloucester, Mass., later he removed to Manchester, Mass.
 	 
	 !He came with Roger Conant in 1626. See Salem in the Seventeenth
 Century by James Duncan Phillips, Houghton Mifflin, 1933. page
 350. William and Elizabeth Allen listed as members of the First
 Church in Salem in 1636.
 	 
	 !Genealogy of the Allen Family of Manchester, Mass from the ear-
 liest settlement to the year 1886 by John Price, Salem Press,
 1888. Pages 4-5 His will is recorded in the 72 folio of the first
 book of Essex Probate Records, dated 7th June, 1678, proved 26th 4th mo., 1679. Herein he styles himself "Willian Allen
 Sen. of Manchester", makes his wife Elisabeth full and sole ex-
 ecutrix of his property, to be disposed of after her death. In
 his will he gives to his "son Samuel, the remainder of the 25
 acre lot of the upland, and a share of the meadow." To his "sons
 Onesiphorous and William my whole 50 acre lot and an acre of salt
 marsh at lower end of my orchard." In the inventory presented
 which amounted to 186 pounds 10 s. among other lands and effects
 are mentioned fifteen acres of upland lying on the bounds of Bev-
 erly, joining to Wenham Great Pond, also two oxen, one cow,
 two heifers, two sheep and a horse. The widow Elisabeth testi-
 fied that her husband Will Allen did not give his son Samuel a
 double portion for the reason that he at the time of his marriage
 helped him to build a house and gave him three cattle. William
 Allen and his wife were among the original members of the First
 Church in Salem, where the children of his second wife were bap-
 tized. There is a copy of William Allen's will in History of the
 town of Manchester 1645-1895 by Rev D.F. Lamson, published by the
 town. The will in on apge 343-344. Married first, about 1629, ,
 , MA, Elizabeth BRADLEY (1518), born 1603, died 1632, daughter of
 John BRADLEY (1565). Married second, about 1633, , , MA, Eliza-
 beth (1520), born before 1619.