Abigail Allen

Abigail Waldo

• Birth: Sep 28 1711 - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
• Death: before June 29, 1729 - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
• Parents: Jonathan Waldo, Hannah Mason
• Husband: Jeremiah Allen
• Child: Abigail (Allen) Belcher

biography

From Genealogy of the Waldo Family: A Record of the Descendants of ..., Volume 1 page 118

IL Abigail, daughter of Jonathan (Cornelius) and Hannah (Mason) Waldo; born Sept. 28, 1711, at Boston, Mass., probably an error for Sept. 18, since she was bapt. Sept. 23, 1711, at First Church.4 The date of her death is unknown, but it occurred before June 29, 1729.

She married, date unknown, but probably in 1727, when she was but sixteen years old, Jeremiah, son probably of Jeremiah ( James) and Mary (Caball) Allen of Boston, born Aug. 7, 1710, at Boston,1 and grandson of Rev. James and Elizabeth (Houchin) Allen, who arrived at Boston, June 10, 1662, and in 1668 was settled over the First Charts. No record of his death has been found, but "Jerry Allen died before Oct. 10, 1763, when his estate was advertised in the Boston Gazette," 7 and a deed, dated Men. 25, 1760, given by the heirs of Gen. Samuel Waldo [lb} mentions "land of the heirs of Jeremiah Allen, deceased," but both these references may be to another Jeremiah. If he was the Jeremiah Allen who married (2) Elizabeth Onlton, as noted later, be must have died in 1750, since his son Jeremiah, born Sept. 1, 1750, was a posthumous child.

No actual proof has yet been found that Abigail's husband was the son of Jeremiah and Mary (Caball) Allen. The evidence, which is partly contradictory, is wholly circumstantial. Her father, Jonathan Waldo, in his will left to his "son in law Jeremiah Allen, £20," and to his "Grand Daughter, Abigail Allen, one gold Watch, a Gold necklace, one silver Tankard holding near three Pints, one Silver Porringer and three Silver Spoons which heretofore belonged to her Mother and ..... further .... £1500 .... upon her attaining the age of Twenty One years or day of her marriage." As all the other daughters of Jonathan Waldo are accounted for, it must have been Abigail who married his " son in law Jeremiah Allen" and had this child, his "Grand Daughter, Abigail Allen."

Mr. - Whitmore, in 44 N. E. Hist. <fc Gen. Register," vol. xviii., p. 176, says that it was Mary who married Jeremiah Allen, but she died Mch. 27, 1709. The Boston Records contain the births of but three Jeremiah Allens of the right age to have married Abigail Waldo. One of these, born June 11, 1699, married, in 1722, Rebecca Kilby, who was living in 1734. Another was born June 24, 1702, son of Jeremiah and Mary Allen, and was presumably the brother of the third, and died young. It could not have been Jeremiah Allen, Sr., who married Abigail, since his wife Mary survived him, dying in 1749. The will of Jeremiah Allen, Sr., dated June 26, 1736, probated Jan. 27, 1741, names—wife Mary; son-in-law, John Wheelwright; daughter-in-law, Mrs. Martha Allen; daughter-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Allen; grandson, Jeremiah Wheelwright; and sons, James and Jeremiah Allen. The will of Mary Allen, widow of Jeremiah Allen, dated Aug. 2, 1749, probated Aug. 22, 1749, names—sons, Hon. James and Jeremiah Allen; grandson, Jeremiah Wheelwright; and granddaughters, Martha and Mary Allen.1 From there being no mention in either will of the granddaughter Abigail, it is probable that she had been cared for by the Waldos and that the Aliens considered that she had been sufficiently provided for by her grandfather, Jonathan Waldo.

Children of Jeremiah and Abigail (Waldo) Allen:

• a. Abigail, dates of her birth and death unknown. She is named in her grandfather Waldo's will, and was living * unmarried, Jan. 14, 1764, when Capt. Edward Tyng added a codicil to his will leaving "to my Cousin Abigail Allen of Boston, Spinster, Niece of my late beloved wife, deceased, fifty pounds."

She is probably the Abigail Allen who married, April 8, 1766, at King's Chapel, Boston, Jonathan, son of Gov. Jonathan (Andrmo, Andrttoj and Mary (Partridge) Belcher of Boston, born July 38, 1710, at Boston; died Men. 39, 177S, at Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was one of the early settlers of Chebucto, now Halifax, and became Chief Justice and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. "He was a man of excellent habits, prudent, upright, of great political integrity. His prejudices were much in favor of New England."'

Jeremiah Allen married (2), published June 12, 1729, at Boston,2 Elizabeth, daughter of John and Deborah (Brown) Oulton of Marblehead, Mass., born June 1, 1712, at Marblehead,1 by whom he had:—

• James, born July 24, 1739, at Boston;
• Jeremy, bapt. June 27, 1742;
• William, bapt Nov. 4, 1744;
• Mary, bapt. Nov. 16, 1746;
• Jeremiah, posthumous, born and bap. Sept. 1, 1750.*

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 14 2017, 7:52:09 UTC