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Genealogy of Winfield Gallup and Florence Miles
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Hope Allen

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    Little is known of Hope Allen's antecedents. He first appears in US records in 1651 when he was admitted as an inhabitant of the town of Boston. He was a currier by trade, a craftsman who treats animal skins with oil or grease. He lived on Wings Lane (then Hudsons Lane), now Elm Street, near Dock Square in the north of Boston. He made his first land purchase in Boston in 1654. In 1660 he bought a large tract of land in what is now Portland, ME at the Casco River. Over three marriages, Hope fathered 15 known children.
    Hope Allen's original will is missing from the record, although copies exist. The estate inventory is dated 7/27/1677: "The home was unusually large for those days and its value was estimated at 450 pounds, it consisted of a kitchen, hall, 'Lodging room next to Streete,' the parlour, the 'little Lodging roome next the parlour,' the little chamber next to the street, the chamber over the hall, the garret next the street, the little chamber next the yard, the chamber over the parlour, the garret over the parlour, and the work house. The total estate was appraised at 660 pounds, 10 shillings...the inventory included many items indicative of culture and also listed '2 negroes a man & woman.' His will, probated 3 May 1677 at Boston, devises 400 acres of Land in Falmouth to his eldest son Edward and a portion to his last wife, Hannah, and children Jacob, Benjamin, Mary, Elizabeth and Deborah.
    In that will, Hope leaves 2/3's of his estate to be divided equally among his children, 1/3 to his wife. Daughter Elizabeth is named in the will, along with siblings Edward, Jacob, Benjamin, Mary and Deborah and an unborn child (later Hope, Jr). Mortgages were enacted in the settlement of Hope's estate and a law suit resulted wherein Samuel Stoddard, purchaser of 3/7th's of the house and land formerly of Hope Allen's was sued by Hannah, Hope's widow and her then husband, Lt. Richard Way. Stoddard was apparently keeping the house and refusing to remove himself; Hannah needed access to the property in order to make payments to her children from the estate. They won the case and several months later, December 16, 1691, the house was sold, the following document proving that Elizabeth Allen was wife of Andrew Wager and daughter of Hope: " "Witness, Whereas Samuel Stoddard of Boston...Mariner formerly purchas(ed) a Certain...messuage..in Boston in...Hudsons alias Wings lane being the Dwelling house of Hope Allen late of Boston Currier deced three seventh's parts of the said house & Land...belonging unto Elizabeth now wife of Andrew Wager Deborah now wife of Mr. Deodate Lawson & Hope Allen three of the Children of...Hope Allen..by Vertue of his last Will..., mentions a court action about this property, and Now Know..that Richard Way & Hannah his wife relict & sole Executrix of the last will...of Hope Allen Andrew Wager & Elizabeth his wife Deodate Lawson & Deborah his wife for...120 pounds, convey to the said Stoddard, and with the...Consent of Joseph How and William Gibson Overseers of the last will of...Hope Allen, their said three sevenths part of the same messuage; all sign and with them Andrew and Elisabeth (sic) "Waker;" ack. same day and recd. 20 March 1729.....(Suffolk Deeds, 44:118)

Hope Allen

    

Mary (Mrs. Hope Allen)

    Notes:
    We do not have a date of death for Mary but she must have died in childbirth. As the second wife of Hope Allen, she bore him one child, John, on 20 Nov 1670 in Boston. In 1672 we find Hope remarried a third time to Hannah Townsend who bore him a child, James, in that year.



Hannah Townsend

    Notes:
    Hannah Townsend, Hope Allen's second wife, bore him five more children between 1672 and 1677: Elizabeth and Jane (twins), Deborah, Rachel and Hope Allen, Jr.
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