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Deborah is buried the N & E Gifford Family Burial Ground, Easton, Washington Co, NY

Find A Grave Memorial# 29466672
Wife of Elihu Wing Gifford.
Deborah Allen was the daughter of Moses Allen 1708 – 1796 and Chloe Ward 1744 – 1777, born in Dutchess County, New York.
In 1785, Elihu Gifford married "tall, fair, blue-eyed Deborah Allen, and came up into Washington County to make a home. His wife was a woman of great decision of character, and while she could not fight, as her brothers did, in the War of 1812, she had the true martial spirit. Elihu Gifford had inherited his father's love for fine horses, and at one time, coming home with his horse, from a race, and showing the effect of too jovial companionship, Deborah met him at the door, and said, 'Take that horse off the place; sell it for what you can get, or give it away, but stay on this place, it shall not'; and it had to go."

Birth	25 Jan 1765	Dutchess County, New York
Marriage	25 Jan 1785	Dover, Dutchess County, New York - Elihu Gifford
Death	16 Dec 1841	Easton, Washington County, New York

Spouse	Elihu Gifford (1761 - 1846)
Child	Elizabeth Gifford (1785 - 1850)
Child	Ira Gifford (1788 - 1867)
Child	Nathan Gifford (1790 - 1881)
Child	Allen Gifford (1792 - 1890)
Child	Jediah Gifford (1795 - 1842)
Child	Hannah Gifford (1797 - 1879)
Child	Abigail Gifford (1800 - 1836)
Child	Elihu Gifford (1803 - 1891)
Child	Sarah Gifford (1806 - 1842)

Father	MOSES ALLEN (1739 - 1796)
Mother	CHLOE WARD (1743 - )
Sibling	Catherine "Caty" Allen (1766 - 1817)
Sibling	Sarah Allen (1766 - 1821)
Sibling	Lydia Allen (1771 - )
Sibling	PETER BUELL ALLEN (1775 - 1833)
Sibling	Mary Allen (1778 - 1820)
Sibling	Nathaniel Allen (1780 - 1832)
Sibling	Clara Allen (1783 - 1850)