Rebecca Newport Allen

first name
Rebecca
last name
Newport Allen
gender
female
birth, death year
circa 1787 , 1830
first, last year in records
1824, 1830
confidence level
confirmed identity
freed status (year freed)
unknown (1788)
enslaver(s)
location(s)
Cummington, MA   Northampton, MA   Williamsburg, MA  
place of origin
Williamsburg, MA

Bio

Rebecca was the daughter of Peter Newport and his second wife, Elizabeth Oliver Newport. She was born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, and probably lived there until 1824, when the family's farm was sold. Most likely, she cared for her father until he died, and then she moved to nearby Cummington. She married Phillip Allen there on December 12, 1824, and died six years later. The couple had no children.

Sources Consulted
 "'His Own Proper Negro Slave': Amos Newport & his Descendants in Hatfield, Williamsburg & Amherst", Eric W. Weber, 2014