Brief Life History of Ebenezer A
When Ebenezer A Allen was born in April 1757, his father, John Allen, was 37 and his mother, Margaret Soule, was 36. He had at least 6 sons and 2 daughters with Dorcas Northrop. He lived in Washington, Dutchess, New York, United States in 1800. He died on 16 July 1805, in Dutchess, New York, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Northrup Burial Ground, Lithgow, Washington, Dutchess, New York, United States.
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- Ebenezer Allen, "United States Census, 1800"
- Ebenezer Allen, "Find A Grave Index"
- New York Probate Records, 1629-1971; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99R-X9QT-H?cc=1920234&wc=Q752-3TL%3A213305701%2C225067701
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1777
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Alain, Alein (Old Breton Alan), from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan, the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan. From 1139 it was common in Scotland, where the surname also derives from Gaelic Ailéne, Ailín, from ail ‘rock’. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror, by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland. Saint Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another Saint Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English femaje personal name Aline (Old French Adaline, Aaline), a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Adal-, especially Adalheidis (see Allis ).
French: variant of Allain , a cognate of 1 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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