A history of the law, the courts, and the lawyers of Maine, from its first colonization to the early part of the present century . of all who knew him. In 1811, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. JudahDelano of Portland, who came from Plymouth, Massachu-setts. By her he had one son, who bears his fathers name,and is a merchant in Boston. His widow still lives, havingmarried, for her second husband, Josiah W. Mitchell ofFreeport, a lawyer, and a friend of Mr. Cutler, by whomshe has had a large family of children. FREDERIC ALLEN. 1805 — Among the early and eminent lawyers of Kennebec County
A history of the law, the courts, and the lawyers of Maine, from its first colonization to the early part of the present century . of all who knew him. In 1811, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. JudahDelano of Portland, who came from Plymouth, Massachu-setts. By her he had one son, who bears his fathers name,and is a merchant in Boston. His widow still lives, havingmarried, for her second husband, Josiah W. Mitchell ofFreeport, a lawyer, and a friend of Mr. Cutler, by whomshe has had a large family of children. FREDERIC ALLEN. 1805 — Among the early and eminent lawyers of Kennebec County,was Frederic Allen of Gardiner, who happily still lives, 1862,to reflect back upon the half century of his honorable andprosperous practice, the genial light of his recollections andcareful observation. He was born in Chilmark, on MarthasVineyard, where his ancestor, James Allen, settled, in 1G68,having become the proprietor of the Manor of Tisbury, con-taining two thousand acres purchased by him of the sachemof tlie island. The wife of James was Elizaljcth Perkins,by whom he had numerous children, two of whom, daugh- */^. < <^2H^ ^^ ^-^^^C^uy AT THE AGE O F 50 FREDERIC ALLEN. 479 tcrs, were born in 1GC5 and 1GC7, at Sandwich, Massachu-setts, where he first settled. The accurate and indefatigableSavage supposes this James may have been the son of George,who is found in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1G36, and the nextyear in Sandwich. He moved to Tisbury in 1668, where hehad eight children, and died, in 1714, aged son John, born in 1680, married, in 1716, MargaretHomes, daughter of the Rev. William Homes of MarthasVineyard, a Presbyterian minister of the Scotch-Irish stock,who was settled in Chilmark in 1715, and whose descend-ants are numerous. By her, he had five sons and threedaughters. The second son, Jonathan, was educated atHarvard College, from which he took his degree in 1757,and became a lawyer, to the practice of which, his father hadgiven some att
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