Mark and Linda Allen toured the Rhode Island area in July 2010.  Mark's report of his geneology research follows.  Posted July 2011.

We had a great trip and wonderful weather (except for a downpour in Boston).  Bristol, RI, was delightful, and we enjoyed our first trip to Plymouth very much.  Linda first put up with my genealogical pursuits, and then at least mustered the appearance of some enthusiasm.  She found the grave of William Allen, the Revolutionary War veteran, at the Newman Cemetery next to the Newman Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, 100 Newman Avenue, Rumford, RI, formerly Swansea, the last township authorized by the Plymouth Colony.  The gravestone is still in good shape, and I found under the thatch the DAR marker, which I leaned against the stone.  A flag was present, as it was for other Revolutionary War veterans.  William's second wife, Mary Drowne (who remarried Allen Munro after William's death), as well as William's son William is also buried there, and several children who died in infancy.  From a footnote in a book I purchased in Plymouth, it appears this church and cemetery was the early center of activities in the new town (township) of Swansea, as the church was founded in 1643.   Rumford is situated in the town of East Providence, RI.

Elizabeth Bosworth Allen (wife of Ebenezer Allen, Jr., and the mother of William Allen, the Revolutionary War veteran) was a descendant of John Howland and his wife, Elizabeth Tilley Howland, Mayflower passengers.  Elizabeth Tilley Howland's parents, John Tilley and Joan Hurst Rogers Tilley, were also Mayflower passengers and died the first year leaving her an orphan at 15.  We toured the Jabez Howland house in Plymouth where John and Elizabeth lived in their later years with their son, Jabez, but after John's death and the sale of the Jabez Howland house, Elizabeth elected to live with her daughter, Lydia Howland Browne (our ancestor) in Swansea (now a section of East Providence, Rhode island) and is burried in the Brown lot at the Little Neck Cemetery, Riverside, East Providence, RI.  I learned of this after I left the Bristol, but the tour guides at the Howland House (a grandmother and her granddaughter descended from another of John and Elizabeth's daughters, Elizabeth) had been to Lydia's grave site and gave me a copy of a picture and the location of her gravesite.  I'll save it for the next trip, or perhaps you or another Allen descendant can explore that assignment.

Paschal Allen, son of the Revolutionary War veteran William and the last Allen in our line burried in Rhode Island is burried in the Old North Cemetery in Warren, RI, along the East Bay bicycle path which goes from Bristol to Providence along the east side of Narragansett Bay.  Linda and I bicycled 41 miles on the East Bay path and in Providence, and the East Bay path is paved and provides many beautiful views of the Bay.  The East Bay path extends from Bristol through Warrent through Barrington and Riverside in East Providence.

On the Cape we stopped at the Dexter Grist Mill, a recreation of a working 17th Century water powered mill, at Sandwich, MA.  The original mill was built by Thomas Dexter, whose son, Thomas Dexter, Jr., operated the mill.  Thomas Dexter, Jr.'s daughter married Daniel Allen.  As we discussed, Daniel's brother, Nehemiah, was one of the first eight or nine men killed during King Philip's War at Swansea.  The first Indian attach accurred for a number of reasons, but perhaps it occurred at Swansea, the last Phymouth town founded, and therefore on the frontier, because it included King Philip's birthplace.

In Boston, we toured the Old North Church, and I was suprised to see a marble plaque for Rev. Asa Eaton, who was a minister in the church.  The name rang a bell and I see upon my return and a review of the Primrose Pantagraph, Vol. IV, #16 Feb., 1998, he was the grandfather of Lucius Eaton, father of Ada Mary Eaton Allen, wife of Ralph Allen.