When Elizabeth Willes was born on 5 June 1740, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Hezekiah Wells, was 3 and her mother, Sabra Trumbel, was -3. She married Samuel Allen in 1762, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 11 May 1778, in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Scantic Cemetery, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.