First Generation

WILLIAM ALLEN (d. 1685) of Prudence Island

Parents: Unknown

William Allen died in 1685. [Ref] He married Elizabeth Unknown. [Ref] She died in 1685. [Ref]

William is of record at Portsmouth (Prudence Island). [Ref] Prudence Island is an island in Narragansett Bay.

Children William and Elizabeth:

1. Mary Allen [Ref] died in 1710. [Ref] She married Thomas Remington, the son of John Remington. [Ref] Thomas died in 1710. [Ref] Mary and Thomas had eight sons and two daughters. [Ref] They settled in Portsmouth and then Warwick. [Ref] Thomas bought 200 acres in Warwick in 1692/3. [Ref]
2. William Allen was of Portsmouth. [Ref] He was deputy to the General Court in 1705. [Ref]
3. Thomas Allen was of Swansea. [Ref] A Thomas Allen married Anne, the sister of John Barnes. [Ref]
4. John Allen was of North Kingston. [Ref]
5. Matthew Allen was of Portsmouth, Warwick and North Kingston. [Ref]
6. Mercy Allen married John Barnes.
7. Sarah Allen. [Ref]
8. Benjamin Allen was born in 1652. [Ref] He married Hopestill Leonard, probably the daughter of Richard Leonard, in 1695 (int.) [Ref] He was of Rehoboth. [Ref]

Second Generation

MERCY ALLEN

Parents: William Allen and Elizabeth Unknown [Ref]

Mercy Allen married John Barnes on 1 Jan 1702 in Providence. [Ref] John was of Swansea; Mercy was of Prudence Island. [Ref]

References

Arnold, James N., Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, First Series, Births, Marriages and Deaths: A Family Register for the People, Providence, R.I.: Narraganset Historical Publishing Co., 1891-1912.

Bicknell, Thomas Williams, A History of Barrington, Rhode Island, Providence, Snow and Farnham, 1898.

Cutter, William Richard, New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, Vol. I-IV. New York, USA: n.p., 1915.

No author, Genealogical and Family History of the County of Jefferson, New York: a record of the achievements of her people and the phenomenal growth of her agricultural and mechanical industries, New York Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co., 1905.

No author, The Early Records of the Town of Providence, Providence, Snow & Farnham, city printers, 1892-1915.

Quint, Alonzo H., "Oaths of Freemen, Allegiance, &c. in Old Norfolk County, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6, 1852, 201-204.