Ancestry of
William Allen

3rd President of Bowdoin College

Thomas Allen

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• • Father of William Allen — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Allen 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Parsons   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Jan 1743 
  • Birth Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Feb 1810 
  • Death Location:
  • Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Lee
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Feb 1768 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  William Allen (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • First Minister of Pittsfield, Massachusetts

    Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Thomas Allen

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/03/2025).
  • ² Allen, Orrin Peer, The Allen Memorial, Second Series: Descendants of Edward Allen of Nantucket, Mass., 1640-1907, Palmer, Massachusetts: Press of C. B. Fiske and Co. (1907), 24, 35-37.
  • ³ Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass., Vol. 2, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell (1871), 960, 967.
  • ⁴ Emerson, Mary A. H., Betty Allen and Her Six Soldier Sons: A Paper Read at the Charter Meeting of the Betty Allen Chapter of the Daughters ..., n. p.: n. p. [1896], 13-15.
  • ⁵ Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 1, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1888), 55.