We extract the following from an account of the Allen and Hall families
furnished by Joseph Hall Allen and his sisters:

“Peletiah Allen and Hannah Hall were married in Falmouth, Maine, 1746 in
a public religious meeting of the Society of Friends according to the custom of
said society; and, in 1770, settled in Windham, then and unbroken forest from
their log cabin to the Canadian line. Maine was at that time called a province
or district of Massachusetts and was not admitted into the Union as sovereign
State until 1820. We, his children Phebe, Hannah and Joseph, reside on the
farm on which our father settled. We have heard him relate that in traveling
seven miles to Friends meeting on the banks of the Kennebec River, with
spotted trees to guide him there being no roads; he was under the necessity
of taking down seventeen pairs of bars to accomplish his object.

Three brothers by the name of Hall came to this country from England.
One of them was drowned, as we have heard, another returned to England,
and the third, Ebenezer, father of Hannah (Hall) Allen, our grandmother,
soon after settled on Matinicus Island, off Penobscot Bat,
coast of Maine, which he purchased.

By his first wife Hannah, he had three children, viz.:
Ebenezer [#2], Susannah, and Hannah,
the mother dying when the last mentioned was only one day old.

He married 2nd, a lady by the name of Green,
by whom he had three more children, viz:
Peter, Phebe, and Tabitha.

While these three children were quite young the Indians were at war with the
whites. Ebenezer Hall and his family were the only inhabitants of the island.
A party of savages surrounded and attacked the house
which was built with logs and constructed with reference to their probable
assaults. It was successfully defended by the inmates for three days and nights,
when all being still for some hours, Mr. Hall, supposing the Indians had retired,
raised the scuttle window and ventured to look cautiously forth. The enemy
being in ambush immediately fired, and he fell back into the house, the frightened
children crying out “Father is dead.” Finding the principal defender was
now out of the way, they battered down the door,
took the mother and her three children prisoners,
plundered the house of such things as they cared for, set fire to it, and
drove their captives before them to Canada.
The three children were soon separated from their mother,
and have never since been heard from.

The mother was afterward exchanged
and made her way on foot to Gorham, Maine,
where she became the wife of
CHITMAN COBB.

The three older children by the first wife were all away from home at the
time of the attack and thus escaped the fate of the rest of the family.
Ebenezer [#2] owned a schooner and was out coasting;
Susannah and Hannah were at school in Portland.
The last mentioned married Pelatiah Allen as before stated.
Susannah married William Proctor and lived in Windham, Maine.

Ebenezer [#2] settled on Matinicus Island, and married Susannah Young.
They had fifteen children. All of whom married and had families.
He died at the age of eighty years, leaving of living descendants,
fifteen children, one hundred and five grandchildren,
and forty-five great-grandchildren."