The writer has no positive knowl- 
edge as to the names of the first Al- 
34 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
race much misunderstood and ‘North Yarmouth.” Although households. 
maligned in certain quarters, but mentioned in many very early deeds 
yee IS coming ms Its Pibspecha and papers and occasionally in the 
uritans; men who were builders Town records the writer has never 
of empire and founders of common- 
wealths, men who in their strenuous 
and splendid conscientiousness, 
“Travailed in pain with the births of God, 
And planted a state with prayers.’’ 
What Hamlet would be with 
Hamlet left out, what Jewish his- 
tory would be without Abraham 
and Moses and Joshua, that, we may 
almost say, would Manchester be 
without the Allens. Their name is 
“writ large’ among the makers of 
the town. 
May their shadow never be less. 
With best wishes, etc., 
D. F, Lamson. 
June 26, 1906. 
An interesting paper on “North 
Yarmouth,” so-called, by George 
Forster Allen, was read. 
North Yarmouth. 
In the easterly part of the Town 
of Manchester is the village called 
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been able to learn the reason of its 
naming. It was early settled and 
consisted of seven families, five of 
whom were Allens—descendants ot 
William. Allen. 
The typography of the neighbor- 
hood is a small basinlike valley, 
bordered on the north and east by 
hills once covered by a _ heavy 
growth of splendid timber; on the 
south by a lower range of hills, and 
on the west by a fairly level stretch 
once called "Poplar Plain.” «The 
soil is comparatively fertile and 
productive. 
With such attractive natural ad- 
vantages as these, with the sur- 
rounding hills lending shelter and 
protection from the storms and 
picturesqueness and beauty through 
the changing seasons, it is not to 
be wondered that these early set- 
tlers chose this spot to found their 
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lens settling at North Yarmouth. 
It is, however, more than likely 
that they were the grandsons of 
William. It is quite certain that 
as early as the middle of the eight- 
enth century there were living 
there five families of Allens. They 
were: Azariah, Jacob, Isaac, Mala- 
chi, and one called the “Governor,” 
whose Christian name seems. to 
have been lost.—These-men and 
some of their descendants lived 
and reared their familiés in this 
little hamlet. 
Azariah lived in a house near Cat 
Brook. The house has long since 
been but a tradition, but the cellar 
is still to be seen by any one who. 
is willing to brush aside the bushes 
and briers. 
Nine children were born to Aza- 
righ in this house, among whom 
were Captain Richard Allen, -the 
father of Henry P. and Samuciers 
