The first Allen in my family tree is Ralph Allen, born in 1615, in Thurcaston, Charnwoon Borough, Leicestershire, England and died in 1691, in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He was married to Esther Susanna Swift (born 1623 - died in 1691) and they had one son, who was named Increase Allen born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts in 1660 and died in 1723.
Ralph Allen live to 76 years old when he passed in Massachusetts.
Not sure when Ralph and Esther left England, clearly before 1660. I know I had relatives that came to the Colonies on The Fortune, which arrived right after the Mayflower.
Anyway, Lydia Allen Mosher married James Mosher and they are part of The American Planters who received land grants to Newport, Nova Scotia. Lydia Allen’s sister Ruth Allen Anthony married John Anthony of the Stuart Anthony and Susan B. Anthony lines. The Allen family left Massachusetts and went to Tiverton, Rhode Island and then off to Nova Scotia. We go way back on the Allen, Anthony, Mosher, Densmore, Hennigar, Laffin, McCulloch, Miller and Greeno families. It was my Great Grandmother, Lydia Olive Laffin McCulloch who left Nova Scotia in 1883 when she arrived in Boston, Massachusetts.