Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Patience Bourne Allen, buried at West Tisbury, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the West Tisbury Burial Ground on the island of Martha's Vineyard. 


In Memory of
Mrs. PATIENCE ALLEN
wife of Lieut. JOSEPH
ALLEN   Decd. who
Departed this Life Febry.
13th. AD 1765.  In the
79th Year of her Age.

Patience was the daughter of Shearjashub Bourne and Bathshua Skiff, born 20 April 1686 in Sandwich, Massachusetts and died 13 February 1765 in Tisbury, Massachusetts.  She married about 1710 to Joseph Allen, son of James Allen and Elizabeth Partridge (my ancestors - I descend from Joseph's brother John Allen who married Margaret Homes).  He was born about 1685 and died 10 March 1727 in Tisbury.  Patience and Joseph had three children:  Susanna, Joseph and Benjamin.

For more information on the ALLEN family:

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Patience Bourne Allen, buried at West Tisbury, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 21, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/04/patience-bourne-allen-buried-at-west.html: accessed [access date]).  

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