Ancestry of
James Spader

TV and Movie Actor

Samuel Allen

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of James Spader — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2434 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1588 
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  • Burial Date:
  • 28 Apr 1648 
  • Burial Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ann -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1628 
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  Samuel Allen

  Nehemiah Allen

  Mary Allen (Ahnentafel No:1217 )

  John Allen

  Obadiah Allen

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  • Claims that Samuel Allen was the son of George and Catherine Allen appear to be false. Samuel Allen, son of George, would have been too young to have been this Samuel Allen per Robert Charles Anderson's The Great Migration series (Vol. 1, p. 34).

• Sources for Samuel Allen

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, 1920, Vol. 54, No. 7, p. 538.
  • ² New England Ancestors Magazine, 2007, Vol. 8.5, p. 40.
  • ³ 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), 13-15.
  • ⁴ Allen, Willard S., A Genealogy of Samuel Allen, of Windsor, Ct. and Some of His Descendants, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1876), 5-7.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 40.
  • ⁶ Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass., Vol. 1, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell (1871), 308.
  • ⁷ Evans, Richard K., The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 215.
  • ⁸ Greenwood, Isaac John, The Greenwood Family of Norwich, England in America, Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press (1934), 16.
  • ⁹ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 447-451, 544.
  • ¹⁰ Savage, James Francis, Family of John Savage of Middletown, Conn., 1652, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1894), 9.
  • ¹¹ Seaver, J. Montgomery, Allen Family Records, Philadelphia: American Historical-Genealogical Society (1929), 18-19.

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