John
Allen
Born about in Augusta, Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Son of James Allen
and Elizabeth McClung Tate
Husband of
Mary (Crawford) Allen
— married
about 2 Nov 1815 in Virginia, United States
Husband of
Agnes Isabella (Barry) Allen
— married
1821 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 54
in San Francisco, California, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 15 Jun 2017
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Biography
John Allen was born in Staunton, Augusta, VA, on May 17, 1796. He was the son of James Allen Jr. and Elizabeth McClung Tate.
At the age of 19, John Allen married Mary Polly Crawford on November 2, 1815, in Staunton when she was 17 years old. They had two children. Mary reached 21 years of age and died on May 6, 1819.
At the age of 25, John Allen married Ann Isabella (Barry) McCue, the widow of William McCue, on June 7, 1821, in Augusta County, Virginia, when she was 24 years old. They had one daughter.
John Allen was responsible for co-founding Ann Arbor, Michigan, when he and his partner, Elisha Rumsey, purchased 640 acres of land in February 1824. Soon thereafter, John's parents, together with his brother, James T. Allen, and sister, Sarah B. Allen, and his second wife, Ann Barry Allen and his three children (two with his first wife, one with Ann), travelled from Virginia to the new settlement at Ann Arbor.[1][2]
He died in San Francisco, California, on March 11, 1851, at the age of 54.
John was buried in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, on March 11, 1851. There is also a memorial to the family located in Ann Arbor.
Sources
- ↑ For a short biography of John Allen, see Find A Grave: Memorial #113438855
- ↑ For a lengthy description of the family journey, see James T. Allen's journal in O.W. Stephenson, Ann Arbor, the first hundred years. (Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce, 1927), Pp 40-43. [1]
- Note -- Wikipedia gives both 1796 and 1797 for year of birth in the text. Uncertain which is valid.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Allen_(pioneer)
- http://www.aadl.org/node/361264
- Wayne County, Michigan, Deed# 7-157 (15 June 1825) John and Ann Isabella Allen of the Village of Ann Arbor to Elisha Mack[2]
- Wayne County, Michigan, Deed# 7-158 [3]
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
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~3.12%
Jeff Lewis
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member JeffreyLewis61
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~2.34%
~12.50%
William Roberts :
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~0.78%
Rosemary (Gilbert) Dexter :
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~0.78%
Edward Haynes :
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