A Genealogy of the Allen Family from 1568 to 1882

Résumé du livre

THE ALLENS. Allen is the name of an ancient family in the County of Durham, England, and of another family which lived in the County of Essex. The name in early times was written Alon, Alwyne, Alleine, Allyn, and many other ways, but in New England, as well as in England, the common spelling is Allen. In 1774, Rev. Joseph Thaxter, of Edgartown, Mass., whose wife was Mary Allen, a descendant of George Allen, one of the early settlers in New England, obtained from England the description of the Coat of Arms worn by the Aliens in the old country, which is as follows: Coat of Arms...