Nehemiah was the 4th of 5 children (only son) born of Nehemiah Allen and his wife Abia. Nehemiah's siblings were: Lois (b. 1759), Mary (b. 1760), Abia (b. 1763), and Susanna (b. 1767).
At the age of 16 years and 5 months, Nehemiah, while residing at Oakham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on August 27, 1781, enlisted as a Private in Captain John Cutler's Company, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Luke Drury's Regiment. The Regiment was raised from detached Militia for 3 months service at West Point. Nehemiah joined the Regiment at West Point on September 3, 1781. He was discharged on November 7, 1781 after serving 2 months and 18 days.
Moley Bothwell and Nehemiah Allen, Jr. published their intention to marry at Oakham, March 19, 1787. They were enumerated as residing in Oakham upon the taking of the First US Federal Census in 1790.
When Nehemiah moved from Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts to Pawlet, Rutland County, Vermont is not known. However, after doing so, he lived alternately in Pawlet and Granville, Washington County, New York.
References:
(1) "Middleborough Vital Records - Middleborough, Mass., Births, Marriages and Deaths - Literally transcribed from the Original Records" Vol. 1 page 141, by George Ernest Bowman, (From the Collections of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society)
(2) "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War." Vol. I, by the Secretary of the Commonwelath, 1896, page 179
(3) "Vital Records of Oakham, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1849." by Franklin P. Rice, 1905, pages 56 and 60
(4) "Pawlet for One Hundred Years" by Hiel Hollister, 1867, pages 20 and 158
(5) "Pawlet Cemetery Inscriptions Rutland County Vermont" by Margaret R. Jenks, 1996, Page 25
At the age of 16 years and 5 months, Nehemiah, while residing at Oakham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on August 27, 1781, enlisted as a Private in Captain John Cutler's Company, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Luke Drury's Regiment. The Regiment was raised from detached Militia for 3 months service at West Point. Nehemiah joined the Regiment at West Point on September 3, 1781. He was discharged on November 7, 1781 after serving 2 months and 18 days.
Moley Bothwell and Nehemiah Allen, Jr. published their intention to marry at Oakham, March 19, 1787. They were enumerated as residing in Oakham upon the taking of the First US Federal Census in 1790.
When Nehemiah moved from Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts to Pawlet, Rutland County, Vermont is not known. However, after doing so, he lived alternately in Pawlet and Granville, Washington County, New York.
References:
(1) "Middleborough Vital Records - Middleborough, Mass., Births, Marriages and Deaths - Literally transcribed from the Original Records" Vol. 1 page 141, by George Ernest Bowman, (From the Collections of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society)
(2) "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War." Vol. I, by the Secretary of the Commonwelath, 1896, page 179
(3) "Vital Records of Oakham, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1849." by Franklin P. Rice, 1905, pages 56 and 60
(4) "Pawlet for One Hundred Years" by Hiel Hollister, 1867, pages 20 and 158
(5) "Pawlet Cemetery Inscriptions Rutland County Vermont" by Margaret R. Jenks, 1996, Page 25
Nehemiah was the 4th of 5 children (only son) born of Nehemiah Allen and his wife Abia. Nehemiah's siblings were: Lois (b. 1759), Mary (b. 1760), Abia (b. 1763), and Susanna (b. 1767).
At the age of 16 years and 5 months, Nehemiah, while residing at Oakham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on August 27, 1781, enlisted as a Private in Captain John Cutler's Company, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Luke Drury's Regiment. The Regiment was raised from detached Militia for 3 months service at West Point. Nehemiah joined the Regiment at West Point on September 3, 1781. He was discharged on November 7, 1781 after serving 2 months and 18 days.
Moley Bothwell and Nehemiah Allen, Jr. published their intention to marry at Oakham, March 19, 1787. They were enumerated as residing in Oakham upon the taking of the First US Federal Census in 1790.
When Nehemiah moved from Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts to Pawlet, Rutland County, Vermont is not known. However, after doing so, he lived alternately in Pawlet and Granville, Washington County, New York.
References:
(1) "Middleborough Vital Records - Middleborough, Mass., Births, Marriages and Deaths - Literally transcribed from the Original Records" Vol. 1 page 141, by George Ernest Bowman, (From the Collections of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society)
(2) "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War." Vol. I, by the Secretary of the Commonwelath, 1896, page 179
(3) "Vital Records of Oakham, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1849." by Franklin P. Rice, 1905, pages 56 and 60
(4) "Pawlet for One Hundred Years" by Hiel Hollister, 1867, pages 20 and 158
(5) "Pawlet Cemetery Inscriptions Rutland County Vermont" by Margaret R. Jenks, 1996, Page 25
At the age of 16 years and 5 months, Nehemiah, while residing at Oakham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on August 27, 1781, enlisted as a Private in Captain John Cutler's Company, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Luke Drury's Regiment. The Regiment was raised from detached Militia for 3 months service at West Point. Nehemiah joined the Regiment at West Point on September 3, 1781. He was discharged on November 7, 1781 after serving 2 months and 18 days.
Moley Bothwell and Nehemiah Allen, Jr. published their intention to marry at Oakham, March 19, 1787. They were enumerated as residing in Oakham upon the taking of the First US Federal Census in 1790.
When Nehemiah moved from Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts to Pawlet, Rutland County, Vermont is not known. However, after doing so, he lived alternately in Pawlet and Granville, Washington County, New York.
References:
(1) "Middleborough Vital Records - Middleborough, Mass., Births, Marriages and Deaths - Literally transcribed from the Original Records" Vol. 1 page 141, by George Ernest Bowman, (From the Collections of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society)
(2) "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War." Vol. I, by the Secretary of the Commonwelath, 1896, page 179
(3) "Vital Records of Oakham, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1849." by Franklin P. Rice, 1905, pages 56 and 60
(4) "Pawlet for One Hundred Years" by Hiel Hollister, 1867, pages 20 and 158
(5) "Pawlet Cemetery Inscriptions Rutland County Vermont" by Margaret R. Jenks, 1996, Page 25
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NEHEMIAH ALLEN,
Died
Feb. 22, 1852:
in his 87 y'r.
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