. Some of the ancestors and the children of Nathaniel Wilson, , 1777, within the original limits,I believe, of the ancient Pocomptuek or Deerfield,out of which the township of Ashfield had in partbeen formed twelve years before his birth. His greatgrandfather, Edward Allen, was among the earliest of those who renewed thesettlement of Deerfield, after the close of King Philips War. His name appearson the proprietors records, as the purchaser of a right in 1686. The purchaseof his older brother, entered as John Allin, Gent., had been made before the warof 1671. The family has won a place i
. Some of the ancestors and the children of Nathaniel Wilson, , 1777, within the original limits,I believe, of the ancient Pocomptuek or Deerfield,out of which the township of Ashfield had in partbeen formed twelve years before his birth. His greatgrandfather, Edward Allen, was among the earliest of those who renewed thesettlement of Deerfield, after the close of King Philips War. His name appearson the proprietors records, as the purchaser of a right in 1686. The purchaseof his older brother, entered as John Allin, Gent., had been made before the warof 1671. The family has won a place in local history, by the large share it borein the calamities inflicted on Deerfield by Indian warfare. When the village wassurprised and destroyed in February, 1704, a female member of the family wasone of the many captives carried off, through the wintry wilderness into Canada;and two months later John Allen and his wife, on venturing to leave the fortified *For this probable relationship, see the Genealogical Appendix, at the close of this notice(p. 723.) (717). Hon. Heman Allen, M. C. is Z\k HUcn lfamil^ house for their dwelling at The Bars, were shot down near their own door. In 1724,Heman Allens grandfather, Samuel Allen, was fired upon by the Indians andwounded On the 25th of August, 1746, he was again set upon by the savages,while at work in his meadow, and fell pierced with several bullets, as he stoodbravely fighting to secure the escape of his children, of whom one (Eunice) wastomahawked, and another (Samuel) was carried off as a prisoner.* His youngestson (Enoch) then an infant, was the father of Heman Allen. Edward and Samuel Allen had always lived at the Bars, where Edward hadpurchased his right, adjoining that of his brother John. But Enoch and an olderbrother (Lamberton), who had both married sisters of the old Deerfield familyof Belding, left the ancient homestead and settled in Ashfield, of which ElijahBelding was the first town clerk, to whom, as such, the war
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