Individual Details
Clara Allen
(1783 - 20 Dec 1850)
Samuel and Clara were said to be "of" Wayne County, NY
There is definitely a conflict in print over which daughter of Moses married Fairing Wilson and which one married Samuel Robinson. O. Turner does not say which of his aunts was which. The Warde book says Lydia married Samuel Robinson, instead of Clara - apparently a wrong assumption. The town records of West Stockbridge, MA, give the births of the children of Fairing Wilson and LYDIA - and descendants of Lydia concur.
I believe that I found "Clary" Robinson in the 1850 census in the village of Newark, Town of Arcadia, Wayne Co NY. She was age 67, born in New York. Living with her was Paulina Robinson age 32 and Anna Canouse age 29 with Theodore P. Canouse age 2. The child was born in Michigan. I would guess these might both be her daughters.
In 1860, Paulina Robinson, age 40, was living in the household of Benjamin F. Wright in Arcadia.
Looking back:
1830 Census. Arcadia, Wayne Co NY
Samuel Robinson. 1m 10-15. 1m 40-50. 1m 60-70.
2f 5-10, 1f 10-15. 1f 40-50 [Clara would be about 47]
1840 Census. Arcadia, Wayne Co NY
There was no Samuel, nor Clara/Clary.
Mary Robinson. 1m 15-20. 1m 30-40. 1f 15-20. 1f 50-60. [This would be the correct age to be Clara - perhaps the enumerator misunderstood the name?]
Events
| Birth | 1783 | New York |  | ||
| Death | 20 Dec 1850 | Wayne County, New York | |||
| Marriage | Samuel Robinson | |
Families
| Spouse | Samuel Robinson (1770 - 1837) |
| Child | Paulina Robinson (1818 - ) |
| Father | MOSES ALLEN (1739 - 1796) |
| Mother | CHLOE WARD (1743 - ) |
| Sibling | Deborah Allen (1765 - 1841) |
| 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) |
Endnotes
1. Grace Graham Hays, papers on family of Moses Allen - prepared for DAR Lineage for her daughter and granddaughter. Never submitted., Says born sometime after 1766..
2. U.S. Federal Census - Digital Images Online by Subscription (Ancestry.com); 1790-1940.
3. Lillian Conrad, email correspondence, Feb. 2000. Transcriptions from papers of her grandmother. Descendant of Fairing Wilson..
4. George K. Ward, Compiled under Direction of Assoc. of Descendants of Andrew Ward; Andrew Warde and His Descendants 1597-1910 (New York: A.T.De La Mare Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd., 1910).
5. O. Turner, History of the Pioneer Settlement: Phelps and Gorham's Purchase and Morris' Reserve: Counties of Monroe, Ontario, Livingston, Yates, Steuben, Most of Wayne and Allegany, and Parts of Orleans, Genesee, and Wyoming [New York] (William Alling, Rochester. c1851 LDS Microfilm #0871566; Item 2).