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- From FindaGrave:
Jedediah Allen, eldest known child of Ralph Allen the mason and Esther Swift, b. of record Jan. 3, 1646/7 at Sandwich, Mass. [Sand. VRs] As an adult Jedediah became a prominent Quaker and born 10-years prior to the arrival of the Society of Friends at Sandwich, Mass. thus the reason why he has an actual recorded date of birth at Sandwich, Mass.
By 1668, Jedediah m. Elizabeth Howland, dau. of Henry Howland and his wife Mary, b. circa 1650 at Duxbury, Mass. She was one of the executors of her husband's estate and was living at Shrewsbury on Feb. 8, 1711/12, the date she attested to the inventory of Jedediah's estate (not formally recorded in the New Jersey probate records until 1759.)
In Mar. 1695, Jedediah Allen, Peter Tilton and Remembrance Lippincott were grantees of one acre at Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey:
• to ye use benifitt & behoof of ye poor people belonging to ye Religious Socity of ye people of God called quakers forever and for a place to erect a meeting house and make a burying place." (Mon. Deeds, D:95).
The Shrewsbury Friend's present-day Meeting House and burial ground remain essentially at the same parcel of land recited in the 1695 deed. Jedediah Allen d. testate Jan. 12, 1711/12 at Shrewsbury and is undoubtedly interred in an unmarked grave at that Friend's burying ground.
Jedediah and Elizabeth had thirteen known children, the eldest 10 born at Sandwich, the rest at Shrewsbury: [*1]
• i. Experience Allen; b. 30 6m [Aug.] 1669; m. Benjamin Field.
• ii. Ephraim Allen; b. 20 10m [Dec.] 1670; m. [---], Elizabeth (Maddocks) (Denn) Powell, and Hannah (Johnson) (Holden) Leonard.
• iii. Eliashib Allen; b. 17 8m [Oct.] 1672; d. after 1711; miscalled "Elizabeth" in some records. No record of wife or children.
• iv. Nathan Allen; b. 2 12m [Feb.] 1673/74; m. Margery Burnet and Martha (Newberry) Davenport.
• v. Judah Allen; b. 17 8m [Oct.] 1675; m. Deborah Adams.
• vi. Esther Allen; b. 26 1m [Mar.] 1677; m. James Adams.
• vii. Ralph Allen; b. 7 11m [Jan.] 1678/79; m. Margaret Denn(e).
• viii. Henry Allen; b. 24 1m [Mar.] 1679/80; m. Hannah Corlies and Abigail Adams.
• ix. Mary Allen; b. 15 9m [Nov.] 1681; m. Daniel Wells.
• x. Patience Allen; b. 8 3m [May] 1683; m. Samuel Tilton.
• xi. Meribah Allen; b. 12 9m [Nov.] 1686; m. William Thorn.
• xii. Jonathan Allen, twin; b. 16 Oct. 1689; m. Mary Corlies.
• xiii. David Allen, twin; b. 16 Oct. 1689; m. Mary Powell and Hannah Champnes or Chambless.
[*1] The six oldest children are recorded in the Sandwich Friends records at Sandwich Mass. On Nov. 8, 1683 Job Almy of Portsmouth, RI sold to Jedediah Allen of Sandwich, Mass., a share of land at the township of Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, in the then constituted Province of East Jersey. This is followed in early 1686 in the East Jersey Deeds (Lib. A:305) with a "Record of the births of the [ten] children of Jedediah Allen and wife Elizabeth, born at Sandweth, Plymouth Colony, New England" with minor variation in dates from the prior Sandwich Friends record.
The dates used in this memorial are from the aforesaid East Jersey record, which presumably reflect dates specifically rendered by Jedediah for purposes of legal recordation. The dates are in the characteristic numerical-only format used by Quakers. However, the children were all born under the pre-1752 old Julian calendar. First child Experience was born in the 6th month of 1669, in which the 1st month of the then English calendar was March, and Mar. 25th was the first day of the new year. Thus she was born in the 6th month then known as August in the Julian calendar, not the 6th month now known as June in the modern Gregorian calendar. The children's record of births in the East Jersey records is followed on Oct. 28, 1687 by Jedediah receiving a patent deed for 410 acres at Monmouth County "part as headland for himself, wife and ten children, and part as to an old settler or patentee." In the interim, dau. Meribah was born at Shrewsbury in late 1686.
Edited 7/17/2015
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As a Quaker, he has no known gravestone or other form of marker
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1647 - 1712 (65 years)
