Ancestry of
Ethan Allen

Revolutionary War Hero

Mercy Wright

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• • Grandmother of Ethan Allen — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Judah Wright 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Burt   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Mar 1668/1669 
  • Birth Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Feb 1728 
  • Death Location:
  • Litchfield, Litchfield Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Allen
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Dec 1692 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Daniel Allen

  Joseph Allen (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • William Allen in his A Genealogy of Samuel Allen (1876) gives the parents of Mercy Wright as Samuel and Elizabeth (Burt) Wright. This is at odds with other sources including a birth record in the Northampton vital records.

• Sources for Mercy Wright

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, 1920, Vol. 54, No. 7, p. 538.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Deerfield, Vol. 1, p. 12, Birth record for son Joseph Allyn.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Northampton, Vol. 1, p. 1562, Birth record for Mercy Wright.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 309.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1850, Vol. 4, p. 358.
  • ⁶ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #77193, Application for Chester Harmon Allen.
  • ⁷ Allen, Willard S., A Genealogy of Samuel Allen, of Windsor, Ct. and Some of His Descendants, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1876), 6.
  • ⁸ Grant, Arthur Hastings, The Grant Family: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Conn. 1601-1898, Poughkeepsie, New York: Press of A.V. Haight (1898), 12.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 35.