William Allen of James City

The case is well made that Valentine Allen (married Mary Page) of Old Rappahannock County was a brother of William Allen of New Kent (married Sarah Holt) & Robert Allen, also Virginia emigrants. The three brothers were the children of William Allen and Joan nee Allen of Grendon Underwood Par., Buckinghamshire, Eng.

See “Southern Trails: The Origins of Our Allen Family in Colonial Virginia” By Jim Farmer / 26 November 2014 link

The father of William, Valentine and Robert Allen was named William Allen. He was a resident of James City County as early as 1639. Even at that time, he was associated with Robert Holt. Since this older William Allen did not enter any patents of his own, it is assumed he did not farm or need to grow crops for a living and therefore worked for Robert Holt, the merchant, in some capacity. He often crossed the ocean going from England to Virginia. One of William’s headrights coming from his own travels abroad can be found within Holt’s earliest patent in Virginia. ...
The actual date for this older William Allen first arriving in colonial Virginia was much earlier than 1638. He first arrived in 1623. The Virginia colony had just sustained a major Indian massacre on March 22nd, 1621/22. A year later, William Allen debarked from the ship Southampton at Elizabeth City County. ...

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William Allen’s own travels back and forth to England must have included visits to his family in the Aylesbury Vale in Buckinghamshire. On one of his trips back home he married his wife Joan Allen. He would have been about 24 years old. Their marriage was solemnized at the ancient church of St. Leonard’s, in Grendon Underwood Parish in the vale in Buckinghamshire.