Zachariah
Allen
Born in St George's Parish, Harford County, Maryland
Son of William Allen
and Mary (Unknown) Allen
Brother of
Susanna Allen, William Allen, John Allen, Joseph Allen, Joseph Allen, James Allen and Josias Allen
Husband of
Lavinia (Jones) Allen
— married
about 1760 [location unknown]
Husband of
Mary (Woody) Allen
— married
about 1771 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Susanna Allen, George Allen, Elizabeth Allen, William Allen, James Allen, Mary Allen, Jane Allen, Eleanor Allen, Sarah Allen, Robert Allen, Joseph Allen, John Allen, Ruth Allen, Lavina Allen and Zachariah Allen
Died before
before age 54
in Orange, North Carolina, United States
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Biography
Zachariah Allen performed Patriotic Service in North Carolina in the American Revolution.
Zachariah Allen is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A001898.
Zachariah was born in 1735. He was the son of William Allen and Mary Unknown. This is shown by church records in Maryland. He passed away in 1790. [1]
Will His will is dated 27 Sep 1789 and was proved 27 March 1790. >[2][3]
Residence In 1779 he can be found in Orange County, North Carolina, USA. [4] His will is also recorded in that County so it looks to be his residence from 1779 to 1790.
The Zachariah Allen who appears on the 1790 census in Pitt County, North Carolina is most likely not him.[5] One reason is that his death is somewhere before May 1790 (date his will was probated) which makes it unlikely he was alive for the enumeration. Also Pitt County is a fair distance from Orange County and the 1789/1790 will puts Zachariah firmly in Orange County.
There are several men named Zachariah Allen in North Carolina and it can be hard distinguishing between them.
Family
For identification of Zachariah's wives and children, the writings of his granddaughter Lavina Allen are crucial. She started writing a family record in 1839, and presumably got a lot of her information from her father William Allen as she was unmarried and living with her father at the time. He would have known who were his full and half siblings.
According to Lavina, Zachariah's first wife was Lavina Jones and his second wife was Mary Woody. His children with Lavina were Susanna, George, Elizabeth, William , and James. His children with Mary were: Mary, Jane, Eleanor, Sarah, John, Robert, Joseph, Ruth, Lavina, and Zachariah.
Zachariah's will names all of those children except for Susanna and Eleanor. Presumably they died before their father. The order of the children is the same between Lavina's listing and the will. Using the known birth dates for William and James Allen (the youngest from the first marriage), the first marriage for Zachariah can be estimated to be around 1760, while the second marriage is estimated at 1771. That would give the appropriate time for all the children of the second marriage to be born before the date of the will.
Sources
- ↑ Entered by Michael Allen, Apr 29, 2013
- ↑ North Carolina, Will Abstracts, 1760-1800
- ↑ North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998
- ↑ North Carolina Census, 1790-1890
- ↑ 1790 U.S. Census
- Source: "Family Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths" by Lavina Allen, 1768-1895 (Hendricks County, Indiana; privately held by Elizabeth J. Ernst, Fredericksburg, VA).
- Source: North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015
- "Maryland, Church Records, 1668-1995," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG6H-M8WM : 8 March 2021), Zackariah Allen, 26 Aug 1735; citing Birth, Maryland, British Colonial America, multiple denominations and churches, Maryland; FHL microfilm .
- Source: 1790 U.S. Census
- Source: North Carolina Census, 1790-1890, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
- Source: North Carolina, Will Abstracts, 1760-1800, Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999
- Find A Grave: Memorial #175020134
- Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed October 27, 2018), "Record of Zachariah Allen", Ancestor # A001898.
- family search data
- with family and 9 sources: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G3HG-HXD
- Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. North Carolina Census, 1790-1890. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.
Name: Zachariah Allen State: NC County: Orange County Township: Early Tax List Year: 1779 Database: NC Early Census Index
Name: Zachariah Allen Probate Date: 27 Mar 1789 Probate Place: Orange, North Carolina, USA Inferred Death Year: Abt 1789 Inferred Death Place: North Carolina, USA Item Description: Wills, Abernathy, Eric A, 1933 - Boothe Joseph, 1824
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Elizabeth Ernst and Michael Allen for creating/merging this profile. Thanks to Greg Rose for starting this profile.
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edited by Elizabeth (Betts) Ernst
The spouses have duplicates to merge if you determine they do match.
If James Allen (Allen-2463) were unlinked from parents then the two Zachriah Allens, the two Lavina Jones, and the two Mary Woodys could all be merged as they have no conflicting information other than the wrong parents for Allen-34996.
edited by Beryl Meehan
I am a direct descendant of Zachariah Allen through his granddaughter Lavina. I have her writings on the family history that explicitly state his wives and which child goes to which wife.